FLOWER GARDEN

Type: Perennial Flower

Species: 100 – 250

Height: 1 - 12

Growing: Asia

Flowers: White, Pink, Red, Yellow

Kingdom: Plantae

Unranked: Angiosperms, Eudicots, Asterids

Order: Ericales

Family: Theaceae

Genus: Camellia

CAMELLIA. This evergreen shrub is generally grown under glass, but it is fairly hardy and may be planted out of doors in warm sheltered spots. In the greenhouse camellia is grown in larger flower pots or in a bed of prepared soil. Thorough drainage is necessary, and a suitable soil compost consists of peat and loam with sand added freely If grown in pots the plants should be set out of doors in the summer and replaced under glass in September. A temperature of 50-55 degrees is suitable.

Healthy plants have a habit of setting far too many buds. It is best to reduce the number, before the buds have developed, to not more than one on each shoot.

After flowering, the plants should be pruned, but only sufficiently to preserve the shape of the bush Crowding shoots may be thinned and straggling ones shortened. Propagation is effected by means of grafting under glass in spring. If repotting be necessary it should be done directly the flowers arc over, but should never be undertaken unless the pots are obviously crowded with roots. Camellias should be sponged occasionally for white scale, and fumigated for green fly if necessary.

Good varieties are alba plena, white; Comtessa Lavinia Maggi, white with deep rose stripes; fimbriata, white; Lady Hume’s Blush, flesh pink; Mathotiana glowing red; C H Hovey. crimson; Donckelaari, crimson and white; Reine des Bcautcs rose; Thos. Moore, carmine.

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