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HOW 
To Select Camellias 
Intelligently 
The Camellia japonica tribe is large, and only by judicious selection 
is it possible to get the best varieties. 
Values in Camellias like other merchandise can not be judged by 
what an individual plant cost. Don’t buy Camellias on price basis 
alone. Choose quality or demand individual varieties because of some 
outstanding characteristic such as color, form, structure, habit of 
growth, or natural period of bloom. 
Exercise the same common sense in buying Camellias, you would use 
in purchasing plants you are thoroughly familiar with. 
Know These Faces 
Before Buying 
HOW OLD IS THE PLANT: Commercial growers or individuals can 
hardly afford to buy one- or two-year-old plants, and wait three to 
four years for flower development. They should be four to six years 
old before allowed to bloom. 
WHAT IS THE HEIGHT AND CHARACTER: Is it a single, stem, 
branched or well branched plant. Well branched Camellias produce 
more flowers than plants lacking character. 
HOW MUCH WILL EACH PLANT WEIGH: This is a very im¬ 
portant point to consider in figuring the delivered cost of transporta¬ 
tion. The disadvantage of buying field grown Camellias, individual 
plants weigh four to eight times as much as pot grown Camellias of 
same age and height. Naturally the excessive weight materially in¬ 
creases transportation or delivered cost, to say nothing of the difficulty 
one has if the plant is to be grown in a pot, will require a very large 
container, to accommodate the large ball of earth. 
The potted Camellia weighs 6^4 pounds net, while the balled and 
lurlapped plant weights 50 pounds. Transportation cost would be 
e ght times h:‘gher on B. B. Camellia than a six-inch potted plant. 
