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REMARKS ON THE ' CAMELLIA ; 
small panes, it will be imagined a very great degree of shade prevailed in the 
interior ; the last point we are desirous of drawing particular attention to. 
The plants were planted against the back wall, at the ends of the house, and 
some specimens in circular compartments, in the middle of the floor ; the borders 
were raised above the floor, the soil which composed them being supported by stone 
edging, nine inches to a foot high. No particular method of training the plants 
was carried out ; nor were they trained at all further than those against the wall 
having some of their main stems simply fastened to it, to hide that portion seemingly 
occupied by the plant, the remainder of which was allowed to extend laterally, or 
in the direction of the middle of the house. In short, beyond the training good 
management would insure being carried out upon them, they were permitted to 
grow as naturally as it can be imagined they would. We need not enter into 
further detail than state, that at the time they came under our observation they had 
grown to very fine specimens, the foliage being of the healthiest deep-green hue, 
and that they were enveloped in a profuse display of bloom, forming objects which, 
for splendour, could not be equalled by any other plants. 
As it was the Camellias flowering in the manner, and existing under the 
circumstances, described in the foregoing paragraph, that most strongly attracted our 
attention to their superiority when so growing, we have gone into minute detail 
respecting them, to enable us the more confidently to draw the attention of our 
readers to the object we have in view in the present paper; which is, to show the 
value of growing the Camellia as a turned-out plant, but more particularly to bring 
into notice the great extent to which circumstances will permit of its being so grown ; 
and to embrace this opportunity of recommending attention to any points in the 
general management, too little regarded or not at all understood. 
Our first point — the superior manner in which the Camellia flourishes when 
grown in the open border — we need say little upon ; for any one paying the least 
attention to plants, and the causes which contribute to their flourishing or prevent 
their doing so, will at once appreciate the advantages such a plan affords. The 
consequence of any plant having a free and healthy medium for its roots, is, that it 
quickly attains a considerable size : the Camellia having done which, it is in con- 
dition, presuming that it flowers as Camellias are wont to do, to be seen to true 
advantage ; to such advantage, in our estimation, as it ought ever to be seen. The 
same effect is created by the small ragged-looking plants that we usually meet with, 
bearing their two or three blooms, as large specimens of any kind of plant having 
small flowers create, when they sparingly bear blossoms. All deservedly disregard 
the plant in the last-instanced case, and they would as equally do so the Camellia 
bearing two or three blooms only, whatever value it might be of as an individual 
variety, if once an opportunity of seeing the Camellia in its true character was 
afforded them. It is true, they can be grown to large specimens in pots, as they 
do, and frequently are ; but it is the exception to see them really healthy, except 
in rare instances, when thus growing. The small spare foliage, its unhealthy-like 
