CAMELLIAS.
No plants endure cutting better than camellias in pots. After cutting them as close as desired, if the rodt-action is even fairly good, and the plants are kept in a warn'house and syringed frequently, young growths will issue from the old wood freely. If they arc cut down entirely, as if pruning a rose tree, and the roots are much crowded or in inert soil, they may have a great part of that soil removed, reducing the cld balls considerably, and giving them a fresh sweet compost of turfy loam and peat in equal parts, and a plentiful admixture of silver sand. By carrying out this practice many ■ tall and unsightly camellias have been transformed into dwarf bushes bearing healthy foliage and fine flowers.
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Patea Mail, 28 July 1882, Page 4
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125CAMELLIAS. Patea Mail, 28 July 1882, Page 4
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