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CAMELLIA PRESSU ROSEA. 
Full particulars relative to the culture of this beautiful genus will be found in 
former volumes of this magazine, and some remarks on the influence of light upon 
these plants may be seen in another page of the present Number. To the latter we 
refer the reader for our views on this important subject ; a subject which is, we 
believe, seldom considered by cultivators, and certainly has never received the 
attention it demands, but one which most materially concerns these and all other 
plants, and an acquaintance with which is indispensable to their superior cultivation. 
Those persons who possess a greenhouse or conservatory of a sufficient height, 
w T ill find their Camellias much benefited by being planted out in the bed or border 
of the house, for by this treatment the plants never suffer from want of water, 
and are rendered infinitely superior in every respect to those grown in pots. It is 
better, however, to allow them to attain a moderate size (three to four feet high, 
and bushy in proportion) before they are thus planted, otherwise, if planted too 
young, they would grow too luxuriant and straggling, and be a much longer 
time before they flowered. 
The drawing of this handsome variety was obtained at the nursery of Messrs. 
Young, Epsom, in the month of April in the present year, the plant flowering when 
little more than a foot high. 
It is worthy of remark, as an incitement to British horticulturists to greater 
industry in raising new varieties of this magnificent genus, that in some of the 
Continental gardens more than two hundred distinct and beautiful varieties are 
cultivated. 
