THE CAMELLIA. 
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THE CAMELLIA. 
WITH AN ENGRAVING OF C. JAPONICA VAR. HALLEII. 
We have on former occasions offered some remarks on the 
essential principles connected with the acclimatising these 
noble plants, with a view to their adoption as ornaments to the 
lawns, the shrubberies, and boundary walls ; since then we have 
had an opportunity of proving the subject by a practical test. 
In pursuance of this desirable object, last autumn we placed 
ten plants of Camellias in an open border at the foot of a wall, 
having a due south aspect, and we take the present opportunity 
of giving the result, so far as we have gone. It will however 
be better, first, to describe the treatment the plants have been 
subject to in their new position, in order to guide others who 
may be desirous of trying the thing, and to enable the reader 
to form a just estimate of the amount of success which has 
attended the experiment. 
The border was prepared about a month previous to planting, 
by throwing together equal quantities of loam, leaf-mould, and 
turfy peat, forming altogether a stratum of about eighteen 
inches in depth, and twice that number in width ; the bottom 
being well drained with pieces of stone and old bricks, and 
after having well mixed the component soils, the bed was 
allowed three or four weeks to settle. The plants selected had 
hitherto been growing in pots, with the treatment usual to 
them in such circumstances : they were Fomponia, Althaeiflora, 
Insignis, all of them being about two feet high, with a tolerable 
share of bloom-buds already set upon them. Soon after being 
turned out they were nailed to the wall, and in this state left, 
without further protection, until the following January, when, 
being aware of the injurious effects likely to ensue from pre¬ 
mature excitement, the plants were covered with thin canvass 
or bunting, not with any intention to preserve them from frost 
or cold, for the material was very thin, but to screen them from 
the sun ; and here we may remark the southern aspect was not 
chosen as being favourable to the desired end, but was used for 
the purpose, simply because the wall must be covered, so that 
in fact it was rather a selection of the plants for the wall, than 
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