LANIER’S • FLORALA, ALA. 
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Camellia japonica 
Camellia japonica 
This is the well-known “Japonica,” a large, evergreen shrub 
with most beautiful flowers in late winter and early spring. 
With recent advanced knowledge and experience with 
this wonderful plant, many new varieties have been intro¬ 
duced, but with most of these newer sorts, although they 
are lovely and desirable, the price necessarily asked for 
them puts them in the luxury class. There are many of 
the older varieties quite as good in color, form, and habit 
as the newer ones, and they can be sold much more cheaply. 
We list a few varieties and colors which we offer at 
reasonable prices. Camellias are difficult to transplant 
unless handled carefully, and we recommend that these be 
planted early. We ball them with earth and use every pos¬ 
sible precaution to prevent a fatal shock to the plants, 
and we suggest the following on your part: If you have a 
half-shady location, but sufficiently removed from the 
roots of large trees to permit free root-development, with 
a slightly acid soil, this is ideal. If no shade is available 
(they must not be overshaded), we recommend a heavy 
mulch of oak leaves and leaf-mold about the roots. This 
serves to protect the young plant from too much sunshine, 
keeps the roots moist and cool, and, at the same time, aids 
soil-conditions and adds to the plant-food of the area. 
They may be fertilized with well-rotted cow-lot manure, 
thoroughly mixed with soil, rotted leaf-mold, or cotton¬ 
seed meal in moderate applications sprinkled over the 
mulch. The mulch should extend 12 to 18 inches from 
body of plant in each direction. 
When plant is set out, soak the soil thoroughly to the 
very bottom of the roots. Then, a light sprinkling of the 
plants during bright, sunny, windy days until they get 
well established, is desirable; and, of course, should there 
be a prolonged dry spell, thorough irrigating every now 
and then is necessary. 
We really believe Camellias should be considered as an 
investment. A Camellia plant, properly cared for and of 
a desirable variety, will increase in value and will be more 
profitable for you over a period of years, should you desire 
to offer it for sale, than if an equal amount of money were 
placed in a savings bank or compounded at the usual rate. 
We know of individual plants that have been sold for 
