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is caused first by repotting, and secondly by placing the plant 
in a little higher temperature than that in which it produces its 
flowers.” 
Mr. Hally says the best seasons for repotting are either im¬ 
mediately after flowering, or as soon as the young wood and 
leaves have become firm enough to handle without injury. Now, 
as we before remarked, it is in the production of the new wood 
that the first stimulus is required, so that if the plants are repotted 
immediately after flowering, the benefit of the new soil goes at 
once towards the formation of a new and vigorous growth; one 
of the most essential things in the cultivation of this or any other 
plant, and on this account we greatly prefer the first of the times 
mentioned as the season for repotting. 
If the repotting is left till the seasonal growth is completed, 
the increased stimuli must then be placed to the account of the 
flowers; but we entertain some doubts if the flowering can be 
strong unless the growth of the plants has been so in a cor¬ 
responding measure; and to repot at the latter season, although 
we know it to be the practice with very many cultivators, 
appears to be throwing the excitement into the flowers totally at 
the expense of the wood; and it does not seem reasonable to 
suppose the roots can derive much nourishment from the old soil 
at the period of the spring growth, from the great length of time 
it has supported the plant, it must be then completely exhausted. 
With respect to the excitement necessary for the production 
of flowers, it must be observed, the increased heat should be 
continued from the first appearance of the buds till the full de¬ 
velopment of the same; but it must not be carried beyond it, as 
camellia flowers do not last long in heat, nor do they even open 
well if it is too strong. Water, too, is a principal agent at both 
periods, and more especially at the latter, for if the plants are 
not regularly supplied while the buds are forming, nearly the 
total fall of them is the immediate consequence. 
We now come to the propagation of the Camellia. Established 
varieties are increased usually by grafting or inarching on the 
stock of some inferior variety; they are sometimes also raised 
from cuttings, but this is rather a tedious and no ways certain 
method ; the cuttings are taken off as soon as the young wood 
is pretty well ripened, and prepared in the usual manner, and 
then inserted in a pan filled with sand and peat in equal quan- 
