densing some very practical remarks on the culture of these 
fine plants by the late Mr. R. Errington, published a few years 
since in the 4 Gardener’s Magazine of Botany.’ Mr. Errington 
writes:— 
The Camellias here (at Oulton Park) are required to he 
constantly in blossom from the end of October till about the 
middle of April, and this we manage annually without even 
lifting out individual plants to receive special treatment, the 
Camellias having a house appropriated to them. A vast amount 
of liquid manure being used, the plants do not seem to require 
rest, but run into new growth after the most abundant blossom¬ 
ing, in defiance of a low conservatory temperature of from 40° 
to 50°. They are suffered to continue developing their wood- 
buds without extra temperature until about the middle of April, 
by which period whatever blossoms or buds remain are plucked 
away. The heat is then increased to 65° or 70° by day, and to 
60° by night, with abundant atmospheric moisture, the plants, 
also, being kept almost constantly damp, and the floor flooded 
daily. 
By this treatment, coupled with shading, the plants become 
full of new growth, shoots in the utmost profusion springing 
from eveiy part of the tree, liquid manure being meanwhile 
liberally used. My maxim is to keep them in this close, warm, 
stimulating temperature till the leaves have attained their ut¬ 
most extension, and this brings us up to the second week in 
June, when the plants are placed on the north side of a wall, 
and screened with canvas for a few days, after which they are 
placed in a thoroughly exposed situation on a bed of coal-ashes. 
Most of the shoots have by this time formed blossom-buds in an 
embryo state, but if not, a check is given to cause them to do so, 
by lessening the supply of water. Liquid manure is now also 
discontinued till the blossom-buds are formed in a most decided 
state, but is then resumed and continued as long as no signs of 
a second growth appear. It is however to be remembered that 
the manured water is used weak, and perfectly clear. 
