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ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE GENUS CAMELLIA. 
It grows very freely in any light rich mould, particularly in a mixture of very 
rotten leaves and sandy heath mould. 
This plant also makes a very beautiful conservatory plant whilst small, being 
readily brought into flower any time in the winter, by placing it for a short time in 
the stove. 
It increases most readily by cuttings of the half-ripened wood, planted in leaf 
mould and placed in a cucumber frame, or under a handglass on a warm border out 
of doors. 
ON TEE CULTIVATION OF THE GENUS CAMELLIA, 
AS PRACTISED BY MESSRS. CHANDLER, VAUXHALL. 
As it is more than probable that many of our readers have never seen Messrs. 
Chandler's collection of Camellias, and as they have long stood among the first in 
the list of cultivators of this beautiful genus, we have taken this opportunity of 
laying before our readers a short 'notice of the system pursued by them, which is 
attended with the greatest possible success. 
The first thing to be noticed is the system of propagation, and as this is carried 
on rather extensively by Messrs. Chandler, they have small brick pits made for the 
purpose ; these are from four to five feet wide, and are carried out to any required 
length ; they are covered with lights four feet wide, and under the centre of each 
light is placed a quantity of soil prepared for the purpose, which is a mixture of 
loam and peat, and this is put a sufficient distance from the glass to admit of a good 
sized plant being placed in it : this done, plants of every species or variety which is 
desired to be propagated, are here planted out, one under each light ; these are 
duly attended to till they are sufficiently well established to be capable of producing 
grafts, and a quantity of young stocks in pots are then introduced round each of 
the plants ; these are placed (on coal ashes) at intervals wherever there is a shoot 
in a proper state for inarching, and the young shoots are then inarched on to the 
said stocks ; they are then secured, by shading, from the direct and powerful rays 
of the sun, until they become so firmly united to each other that the shoots may be 
carefully cut off the parent plant without sustaining any injury ; the plants from 
which these shoots have been taken, though necessarily very much weakened for 
the time by being thus cut in, will not suffer materially from it, but, on the con- 
trary, will in due time re-produce a greater abundance of young wood than before, 
and will bear to be submitted again and again to the same mode of treatment. 
While the old plants are thus suffered to remain in the same situation, the young- 
stocks thus grafted upon are removed into the greenhouse, where they are treated 
in a similar manner to the old ones. According to the same treatment, others are 
propagated by layers, the plants being planted out as before named, and the young 
shoots laid down into pots, which are introduced round the plant ; either of these 
methods answers very well, but it appears that the latter is best adapted for the 
more common species and varieties, while the rare and choice ones are propagated 
with greater success by inarching. 
Messrs. Chandler pot their Camellias about the month of September; the soil 
