CAMELLIA JAP0NICA. 
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at this time. Keep them as regular as possible in 
temperature and moisture, in order to ensure their 
bloom. Previous to taking Camellias from the Green¬ 
house into a warm room, water them freely over their 
leaves (if the flowers are not expanded) and they will 
come into flower much better than if taken in without 
watering. 
The Camellia is a plant that is well adapted to 
flower during the winter months, when but few Plants 
cheer us with their expanded blossoms. They should 
be placed in the Conservatory early in the Fall before 
the weather gets very cold, and by keeping the tem¬ 
perature as regular as possible between 50 and 60 deg. 
of heat, (about 50 to 55 deg. by night and 55 to 60 deg. 
by day,) and keeping them regularly moist, and giving 
them air in mild weather, they will come into flower 
early, and provided they are good sized Plants and 
well budded, they will flower a great part of the win¬ 
ter. It may be well to remark that Camellias are very 
full of buds, and will naturally drop some of them 
of their own accord, when they have more on them 
than the sap can supply, and therefore amateurs should 
not feel disappointed if they lose some of them. As 
soon as they have done flowering, which will be ac¬ 
cording as they flower early or late, from February to 
April, before the new shoots commence growing, 
they should be repotted in fresh soil, and kept in the 
same heat as before, or the heat may be raised from 
55 to 60 deg. by night, and 60 to 65 deg. by day. 
Syringe over their leaves early in the morning, and 
keep the soil in the pots moist, and shade them from 
the hot sun, giving them as much air as the weather 
