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PROPAGATION AND CULTURE, &c. 
On this subject much useful information will be found in the third 
volume of the Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, where 
there is an excellent practical paper, by a distinguished cultivator of 
Camellias, Mr. Walter Henderson, F.H.S. gardener to Walter Camp¬ 
bell, Esq. M.P. Woodhall, Lanarkshire. The works of Curtis, Sweet, 
Macintosh, and Loudon, also contain much interesting matter con¬ 
nected with the culture and treatment of Camellias. From these we 
shall gather what is most important for our present purpose, and add 
such remarks as have occurred to us in the course of our own practice. 
SOIL. 
The soil which we consider best for Camellias, and in which they are 
grown by those who cultivate them extensively in the neighbourhood 
of London, is a strong, rich, yellow loam. If it is supposed to be too 
retentive of moisture, a portion of peat, or bog-earth, and sand, is gene¬ 
rally mixed with it; and in this compost the plants grow vigorously. 
Curtis recommends about one third good bog-earth, and two thirds rich 
sandy loam; when there is a larger proportion of the former than of 
the latter in the compost, he says, the plants will make greater shoots, 
but are shyer in producing blossom. 
Henderson’s compost is as follows, viz .—One part of light brown 
mould, one part of river sand, one part of peat earth, one half part 
rotted leaves; mix them all well together; and when the Camellias 
require shifting, put some broken coal-char in the bottom of the pots, 
and some dry moss, or hypnam, over it. Instead of the coal-char being 
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