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tities, and placed in a pit or cold frame; they do not grow till 
the following spring. The better method is by grafting; for 
though inarching may be simpler in the operation, it never forms 
so good an union: for grafting, the stocks may be raised from 
cuttings, as before directed, or what is better, from seed: and 
here the cultivator has a double chance, for if the seed is selected 
from good semidoubles or from the double varieties, in all proba¬ 
bility he will originate a new and perhaps a good sort; but even 
when this is not the case, the plants so raised form the very best 
stocks for grafting the superior kinds on. The mode of grafting 
usually employed is the common side graft; it should be done 
just as the plants commence growing: in forming the graft, the 
usual slit or cleft may be omitted, the object of it being to keep 
the scion firmly in its place, and to prevent its being disturbed 
by wind; but in this case, as the operation is done indoors, it 
is unnecessary. Care should be taken in fitting the two cuts, 
that they may unite evenly, for if not done neatly at first, it re¬ 
mains an unsightly object ever afterwards. The stock may be 
from three to seven or even ten years old; but the scion should 
be a well-ripened shoot of the current year’s growth. After the 
operation is complete, the plant should be placed in good heat, 
and covered with a handglass; they generally unite with facility. 
With respect to the raising camellia from seed, it is a subject 
we would recommend to every one possessing a greenhouse : the 
seed should be sown as soon as ripe, which may be known by its 
turning a deep brown colour ; the soil should be light bog mould 
and white sand : if the pots are plunged in a pretty strong heat, 
the seed will generally vegetate in a few months, but they will 
sometimes lay two years, so that the earth should not be dis¬ 
turbed till the whole of them are up; as soon as they have at¬ 
tained two or three leaves they may be potted off, and treated 
nearly the same as mature plants, bearing in mind the difference 
in constitution, and of course they do not require any excitement 
to bloom for the first two years. By this time they will have 
grown from two to three feet high, and the third season many of 
them will flower. None of them should on any account be used 
for stocks or destroyed till they have bloomed. 
Now, though four or five years may at first sight appear a 
long time to wait even to determine whether the plants will prove 
worth keeping as individuals or not, yet we feel certain the person 
