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natural manner ; by the other mode it was stinted into a bloom¬ 
ing condition. 
Of the third group only T . aduncum (peregrinurri ) is esteemed 
at the present day as a suitable ornament of the garden, and 
that is so well known, as to require no particular mention. 
Raised on a gentle heat, and planted in the manner of other 
annuals, it soon becomes a mass of blossom. — Ed. 
Horticultural Essays, 
By the Members of the Regent's Park Gardeners Society „ 
CULTURE OF THE CAMELLIA. 
By Thomas Stanfield. 
Camellia japonica, introduced 1739, is an ornamental, ever¬ 
green shrub, which grows to the size of a low tree, with dark 
green ovate leaves on short petioles, with flowers, red, white, 
and variegated, single, semi-double, and double, without fra¬ 
grance, but of great splendour, and particularly valuable as 
appearing in December, January, and February. The varieties 
now in cultivation are very numerous. 
Propagation. —The single Camellia is propagated by cut¬ 
tings, layers, and seeds for stocks, and on these the other sorts 
are inarched, budded, or grafted. The cuttings are to be formed 
of the ripened shoots of the preceding summer, which are 
taken off in August, cut smoothly across at a joint, taking off 
two or three of the leaves ; the cuttings may then be planted in 
pans of sand and loam. Some cultivators use peat. The pans 
may be kept in a cold frame, but shaded during powerful sun¬ 
shine, and in the following spring some will begin to push, when 
they,may be placed in a gentle heat: in September following, 
the rooted plants will be fit to pot off, and in the second spring 
they may be used as stocks. A more speedy mode of obtaining 
stocks is by planting stools in a pit devoted to that purpose, 
and laying them in autumn : the following autumn most of the 
layers will have produced roots, when they may be taken off 
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