HESE beautiful aristocrats of Southern gardens are each year gaining more in 
popularity than any other shrub known. The various Camellia shows that are 
being held each season all over the country bear evidence of this, and part of the 
credit for the popularity of the Camellia is due to these shows. The organization of 
the American Camellia Society has created a great deal of interest. If you are selling 
Camellias, you should join this Society and ask your customers to do the same. It is 
bound to bring you more business. Address Prof. R. J. Wilmot, Gainesville, Florida, 
for application blanks. 
There is and always will be quite a lot of argument in regard to Camellia names. 
We are listing each variety by the accepted name used by the majority of growers. 
No doubt some of these will be changed in the years to come as some are being changed 
now, and when this happens we will always list each variety by as many names as 
we know it to be sold under. This will prevent you from duplicating varieties. 
We are trying to grow all of the better varieties, and not trying to introduce a lot 
of new seedlings that are good only for understock. We hope to increase our list of 
varieties as long as we can find new ones to buy that we believe are worth growing. We 
use several thousand plants each year for understock and we also sell plants for under- 
stock, so we use the poorer flowering sorts for this purpose. We also use many Camellia 
Sasanqua for understock and find it sometimes works better than Camellia japonica. 
This year we cannot recommend too highly our lining-out grade—8 to 12 inch. 
These plants are about the finest we have ever grown and we feel that you should 
get them as early as possible. By all means place your order early. We had to dis- 
appoint many customers last season. 
Although some customers plant this size direct to the field, and we plant in open 
beds under our sprinkler system, it might pay you to grow them in partial shade simi- 
lar to lath house for one year. 
We like to clean out all our beds by the latter part of December. If you want your 
plants later, please let us have your order soon so that we can reserve your needs. 
All of our Camellias are transplanted many times and have a wonderful root system. 
We are sure you will find none better anywhere, and once you use some of our plants 
you will like them. We know you can please your customers with them. 
We are listing our Camellias in groups for convenience in pricing. The scarcity, 
demand, and quality of the blooms determine the group they are listed in. We are not 
in position to offer liners in all groups, but will as soon as our stock will permit. 
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