

Varieties of Camellias 
SOME VARIETIES OF CAMELLIAS described in this list and in 
great demand are very scarce and may not be generally avail- 
able for immediate delivery due to the number of plants that 
can be produced from a limited amount of parent stock. 
Usually all such plants that can be produced each season gO 
to those who have placed orders in advance, which plants 
are usually produced by the grafting method. A grafted Ca- 
mellia is made by the union of two parts—the cion, which 
is cut from a twig of the variety desired, and the stock, which 
is the root system of a plant which has been cut down so 
that only a sufficient amount of the trunk is above the 
ground to allow for the insertion of the cion, the work being 
done in the late winter at a time when the cions and the 
stock have reached the correct degree of dormancy. These 
plants are not ready for customers until late summer or early 
fall when sufficient time has elapsed to have insured a strong 
union of the stock and the cion and the plant showing vig- 
orous growth. A cion inserted in the undexstock of a three 
year old container grown Camellia will usually within two 
seasons develop into a larger plant than that of a four or five 
year old plant grown from a cutting. Age of understock, value 
of the plant used for the understock before being cut down, 
and the merit of the variety to which the plant has been 
grafted, govern the price of grafted plants and those wishing 
to buy the scarcer varieties, should make inquiry before or- 
dering. Advance orders are booked in the order received and 
the number of these advance orders that can be accepted 
necessarily must be limited to the number of plants of any 
given variety that can be produced in any one season. All 
orders must be placed previous to the first of January for 
grafted plants where delivery is desired by late summer or 
early fall of the same year. All plants grown by Tormey’s 
Gardens are container grown, and unlike those whose growth 
is seriously affected by being dug from a growing bed, will 
grow into fine specimens much sooner than will plants 
where their root system has been disturbed. 
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ConpiTIons Or Sates—Only plants that are in the best 
of condition are sold by Tormey’s Gardens. What hap- 
pens to them after they leave our place is beyond our 
control. Tormey’s Gardens responsibility therefore 
terminates when the plants leave Tormey’s Gardens. 

