“Longview” Camellias are an endowment. The money you 
have given for them isn’t after all a great deal, and you can 
look on it as a capital investment which brings in dividends 
of increasing quantities of saleable flowers each season. 
They will prove to be your most prized and profitable pos¬ 
session. Old specimens here in the South frequently carry 
five and six thousand perfect flowers during a winter sea¬ 
son. One must remember too, Camellias are known to live 
150 years, and still be in their prime. For this reason a 
good, cut flower variety of Camellia constitutes a sound 
investment for any florist wdio has available space in a cool 
greenhouse, to grow them. 
After owning a few such good varieties and cropping 
them five or more years, we are confident you would not 
part with them, at five times their original cost. 
Camellias are now the most valuable plants in horti¬ 
culture. Since 1930 we furnished fifteen car loads of col¬ 
lected specimens, which were planted as outdoor winter flo¬ 
wering evergreens on estates in South Carolina. Many of 
these specimens brought prices ranging from $25.00 to 
$60.00 per foot, delivered In other words, ten foot Camel¬ 
lias sold for $250.00 to $600.00 each. And these sales were 
made during a period of the worst financial depression this 
country has ever gone through. Many individual specimen 
Camellias brought $1000.00 to $1500.00 apiece. 
The prices we are now offering these fine florists cut 
flower varieties are amazing low. In fact, they cost less 
than you could import them from Europe, prior to enact¬ 
ment of Quarantine 37. 
“Longview” Camellias are pot grown—-shifted each year 
to larger size containers to prevent them from becoming 
pot bound. They are light in weight, reducing the cost of 
transportation one-quarter to one-sixth of what bulky, 
balled and burlaped field grown Camellias would cost to 
ship. And best of all, you get an undisturbed ball of roots, 
easy to handle, and the plants will not show evidence of 
hardship on distant shipments made any month of the year. 
You can continue growing them in pots, tubs, wooden 
boxes, or ground beds of your greenhouse. 
Fritz Bahr, in his column WEEKS WORK, of the 
Florists Exchange and Horticultural Trade World, July 14, 
1934 issue, says : 
“CAMELLIAS” 
“Camellia plants, nicely branched, about 30 in. tall and planted out 
about a year ago in a ground bed, produced last season two to three 
flowers each. They have made a fine growth and at this writing quite 
a number carry eight or ten or even more buds. Whether the flowers 
are used for corsages, shoulder boquets or floral designs, the plants 
will more than pay for themselves this year. On this account I once 
more call attention to Camellias. Every retail grower should set out 
a few plants and let them come along where they can remain for the 
next eight or ten years. Planted 6 ft. or so apart each way, a catch 
crop of Calendulas or some other dwarf growing annual, may be grown 
between the plants for the first three or four years. If you haven’t a 
ground bed for the plants, you may well consider growing a limited 
number in pots. They may not grow as quickly into large specimens, 
but they will flower just as profusely as when planted out.” 
Inevitably, you will buy and grow Camellias, Whether 
they prove profitable for you, depends on your getting the 
right kind of varieties—types suitable for cut flowers—and 
plants old enough to produce saleable flowers the first year. 
While on the subject of varieties, why not protect your¬ 
self by being ultra-exacting in the selection of worth-while 
cut flower sorts. 
“Longview” Camellias are tagged with an embossed cop¬ 
per label, indicating the variety; the label is attached with 
a seven strand flexible Monel metal cable, a permanent and 
enduring means for future identification. 
