"To dig: «i|i u trFA, you miutt l>«g:ln 
will, thr rootH,” 
—Chineau Proverb. 
Pot-Q^044m, QameUiai, 
For your conservatory, potted Camellias are ideal. The very 
ease of moving them in and out of the greenhouse with the cold 
and warm seasons is a real advantage. 
There is extra and troublesome labor in potting a heay^ field- 
grown plant, requiring expensive 10 to 16-inch tubs. For example, 
an average 6-year-old field grown Camellia will have a ball of earth 
weighing 60 to 80 pounds. A pot grown Camellia of the same age, 
including the 7-inch clay pot, weighs but 10 pounds, while a 
6-year-old, 6-inch pot Camellia weighs about 6 pounds. 
So one actually pays transportation charges on 50 to 70 pounds 
of unneeded dirt, that doesn’t appreciate the ride when you buy a 
field-grown Camellia. Naturally, you pay much less express charges 
on a plant of the same age in a 7-inch pot weighing only 10 pounds; 
and you get the earth with all roots undisturbed, the plants full 
working machinery, necessary to the Camellia’s growth and health, 
when you buy potted Camellias. 
So you save money when you 
buy pot-grown Camellias. You 
will find them easier to handle 
and more certain of blooming the 
first season. 
LONGVIEW Camellias are pot 
grown from the time they were 
propagated. Not field or bed 
grown, recently dug, with cut off 
roots, crammed into pots and 
misleadingly advertised as “pot- 
grown”. 
In buying Camellias, it is very 
easy to be mistaken in “bargains”. 
Catalogue prices are usually based 
on the height of the individual 
plant, a measure that tells nothing 
about variety, vigor or florescence. 
Here in the South, Camellias 
are grown by the acre like corn 
and cotton. The fields are well 
cultivated, heavily fertilized to 
stimulate rank growth and produce 
large plants as quickly as possible. 
Yet seldom do these hustled plants 
set flower buds under such 
unnatural methods of culture. 
Plants this hastily produced in quantity are put on sale at apparent 
low prices, but the customer does not get as much return per dollar as 
one gets from the purchase of Camellias carefully nurtured for bloom. 
The Horticultural Society of England, published 98 years ago: 
“Starved or stunted Camellias are more likely to succeed than such 
as have been forced into rapid and luxuriant growth.” 
Intelligent people, once informed of differences in quality, do not let 
themselves be fooled into judging Camellias by the price per foot. 
Vital also is it to remember that, as all authorities agree. Camellias 
suffer from the slightest injury to their roots. Here is where the disadvantage 
of field-grown plants shows up most quickly and noticeably. In digging 
the Camellias in the field most of the tip end feeder roots are cut off. 
To compensate for the loss of these rootlets so necessary to the nutrition 
of the plant, the tops of the Camellias must be severely cut back to balance 
the food requirements with the plant’s reduced ability to take in food. 
Pruning back is the only way to insure their lives, and lead to their early 
establishment. 
The five-year-old, K" pot Camellia 
weishK 6 pounds net. A field grown 
Camellia of same age. balled and 
hurlapped weighs 50 pounds, or eight 
times as heavy as a properly grown 
pot plant. 
So, in the end, the Camellia that looked so large 
in the field has finally lost its statue and form 
through severe pruning. It has dwindled like a 
melting snow man, and no longer gives the 
appearance of returning' a lot for the money. 
It has turned out to be not a cheap Camellia, 
but a disappointment. It has lost not only size, but 
most of its ability to bloom for you the first and 
perhaps the second season. 
Because of their superior qualities and our 
methods of culture, LONGVIEW pot grown 
Camellias will fully satisfy you. 
sjwatgw''*' Craelitosaj, 
Robt. O. Rubel, Jr., Prop. 
Camellia Specialist 
\ non hern grower wrote June 24, l&ST: 
Thi! field grown Oamelliae we g»),t from 
a nursery In your neighborhood were 
lubbed at the time received. They did 
not make any growth, and not a whole 
lot of root actii.n. I lost about 35 of these 
plants. 
Gladwyne, Pa.. April 5, 1937.—"I prefer 
your Camellias because they are so well 
grown and in pots." J.N.II. 
"What can come of branches without 
roots?” 
—Chinese Proverb. 
