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wiped. The following February they will be partially rooted, and be¬ 
ginning to grow; when it is considered that they are sufficiently well 
rooted to bear removal, which will probably be about August or Sep¬ 
tember, they must be potted off singly into sixty sized pots, well drained, 
and filled with a compost of one third light loam, one third bog or peat 
earth, and one third pure white sand. Afterwards they are to be 
sprinkled with water, and placed in a close frame, or pit, until they 
begin to root afresh, and by degrees exposed to the air. The succeed¬ 
ing season they may be potted in the same soil as the other Camellias, 
and similarly treated. 
Henderson puts in Camellias at any time of the year, excepting 
when they are making young wood. He puts fifty cuttings in a pot 
of sand eight inches in diameter, sets them in a cool place in the back 
of a vinery or peach-house, for a month or six weeks, then plunges them 
to the brim in a hotbed, where there is a little bottom heat. 
TREATMENT OF ESTABLISHED PLANTS. 
The Camellia may be considered as a hardy green-house plant, 
requiring only a slight protection, like the myrtle, in very severe wea¬ 
ther. But although it will thrive with this kind of treatment, yet to 
grow the varieties in the very best manner, a great degree of care and 
attention is necessary. They ought to have a house entirely devoted 
to them, in which they will be seen to more advantage than when 
mixed among other exotics. Such a house should be rather lofty than 
otherwise, as the plants never look so well as when six or eight feet 
high, trained in a conic form, and clothed with branches from the root 
upwards. If it is possible to set them near the glass, so much the better; 
in this case they are less liable to have their leaves injured by the sun. 
None but the best crown or patent glass should be used; where this is 
not attended to, it is difficult to prevent the leaves being burned or 
blotched. To obviate this, some cultivators recommend the house to 
be rather shady, but we think this is not essentially necessary, unless 
during the time the plants are in flower, when they ought, in addition, 
to be liberally supplied with water, and have a degree of heat somewhat 
