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tica produce fruit with a pale yellow fiefll, and by 

 conftantly raifing thefe trees from feeds, they dege- 

 nerate the fruit continually •, whereas, if they would 

 bud from the good fort, they might have it in as great 

 plenty as they pleafed ; but there are few perfons in 

 that part of the v/orld who underftand the method ot 

 grafting or budding fruit trees, and if they did, tliey 

 are fo negligent of their fruits, &c. as to leave the 

 whole to nature, feldom giving themfelves any far- 

 ther trouble than to put the feeds into the ground, and 

 leave them to grow as nature fhall incline. . y 

 In proof of what I have here faid, I cannot omit to 

 mention, that a few years ago, I fent two fmall trees 



^ : to Jamaica, where this fort 

 was wanting ; and from thefe many other trees were 

 budded, which have produced plenty of fruit, fome 

 of which were fent to England a few years paft i and 

 although they were long in their palfage, yet when 

 they arrived here,- they were greatly .fuperior to any 

 of thofe fruit which are imported hither from Spain 

 or Portugal, one of thofe affording three tiqies the 

 quantity of juice, that a fruit of equal fize from either 

 of thofe countries does. 



All the forts of Orange-trees with ftrlped leaves are 

 tender, therefore muft be placed in a warm part of 

 the green-houfe in winter, and muft be treated with 

 more care than the common fort, otherwife they will 

 not thrive. Thefe are varieties which fome perfons 

 are fond of, but they never produce good fruit, nor 

 are the flowers produced in fo great plenty,, there- 

 fore a few only fliould be preferved for the fake of 



variety, ',',". 



Tlie horned Orange differs from the other forts in 

 the fruit dividing into parts, and the rind expanding 

 in form of horns ; this and the diftorted Orange are 

 preferved by fome curious perfons for variety, but 

 are not fo beautiful as the common Orange, There 

 is alfo a great variety of fweet Oranges both in the 

 Eaft and Weft-Indies, fome of which are much more 

 elieemed than thole we now have in Europe ; but as 

 they are much tenderer, they will not thrive in this 

 country with the common culture ; therefore I ftiall 

 not enumerate them, but ftiall proceed to give di- 

 redtious for the management of Orange-trees in Eng- 

 land. 

 V/here the trees are to be raifed for ftoeks to bud O- 



ranges, you ftiould procure fome Citron-feeds which 

 were duly ripened •, for the ftoeks of this kind are 

 preferable to any other, both for quicknefs of growth, 

 as alfo that they will take buds of either Orange, Le- 

 mon, or Citron j next to thefe are the Seville Orange 

 feeds. The beft feeds "are ufually to be had from 

 rotten fruits, which are commonly eafy to be procured 

 in the fpring of the year ; then prepare a good hot- 

 bed, of either horfe-dung or tanners bark; the laft of 

 v/hich is much the better, if you can eafily procure 

 it. "When this bed is in a moderate temper for heat, 

 you muft fow your feeds in pots of good rich earth, 

 and plunge them Into the hot bed ; obferving to give 

 them water frequently, and raife the glaftes in the 

 great heat of the day, to give proper air, left the 

 feeds llioald fuffer by too great heat: in three weeks 

 time your feeds will come up, and if the young 

 plants are not ftinted, either for want of proper heat 

 or moifture, they will be in a month's time after their 

 nppearance, fit to tranfplant into fingle pots : you 

 nluft therefore renew your hot-bed, and having pre- 

 pared a quantity of fmall halfpenny pots (which are 

 about five inches over at the top,) fill thefe half full 

 of good frefti earth, mixed with very rotten cow- 

 dung j and then ftiake out the young plants from the 

 large pots, with all the earth about them, that you 

 may the better feparate the plants without tearing 

 their roots •, and having half filled the pots with earth, 

 put a fingle plant into each of the fmall pots ; then fill 

 them up with the fame earth as before direfted, 

 plunging the pots into the new hot-bed, giving them 

 a good watering to fix the earth to their roots ; and 

 obferve to repeat the fame very often (for this plant, 

 wJien in a hot-bed, requires much water,) but be fure 



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to fcreen th^m from the fun in the heat of the day, 

 In this method, with due care, your plants will grow 

 to be two feet high by July, when you muft begin 

 to harden them by degrees, in raifing your glafics 

 very high, and when the weather is good, take them 

 quite off; but do not expofe them to the open iun in 

 the heat of the day, but rather take off the glaffcs, 

 and ftiade the plants with mats, which may be taken 

 off when the fun declines ; for the violent heat in the 

 middle of the day would be very injurious to them, 

 efpecially while young. Toward the end of Septem- 

 ber you muft ' houfe them, obferving to place them 

 near the windows of the green-houfe, to prevent the 

 damps from moulding their tender fhoots. During 

 the winter feafon they may be often refreflied with 

 water, and in March or April, wafti their heads and 

 ftems, to clear them from the filrh that may have 

 fettled thereon, during their being in the houfe ; and 

 you muft alfo give them a moderate hot-bed in the 

 fpring, which will greatly forward them ; but harden 

 them by the beginning of June, that they may be in 

 right order to bud in Auguft ; when you lliould make 

 choice of cuttings from trees that are healthy and 

 fruitful, of whatever kinds you pleafe, obferving that 

 the Ihoots are round j the buds of thefe being much 

 better and eafier to part from the wood, than fuch 

 as are flat. When you have budded the flocks, you 

 fliould remove them into a green-houfe, to defend 

 them from wet, turning the buds from the fun -, but 

 let them have as much tree air as poflible, and refrefli 

 them often with water. In a month's time after 

 budding, you will fee which of them has taken ; you 

 muft then untie them, that the binding may not pinch 

 the buds, and let them remain Iri the green-houfe all 

 the winter ; then in the fpring, prepare a moderate 

 hot-bed of tanners bark ; and, after having cut oft' 

 the ftoeks about three inches above the buds, plunge 

 their pots into the hot-bed, obferving to give them 

 air and water, as the heat of the weather fliall require ; 

 but be fure to fcreen them from the violence of the 

 fun during the heat of the day. In this management, 

 if your buds ftioot kindly, they will grow to the 

 height of two feet or more, by the end of July ; at 

 which time you muft begin to harden them before the 

 cold weather comes on, that they may the better 

 ftand in the green-houfe the following winter. In 

 the firft winter after their fliooting, you muft keep 

 them very warm ; for, by forcing them in the bark- 

 bed, they will be fomewhat tenderer j but it is very 

 neceffary to raife them to their height in one feafon, 

 that their ftems may be ftrait : for in fuch trees, 

 which are two or more years growing to their heading 

 height, the ftems are always crooked. In the fuc- 

 ceeding years, their management will be the fame as 

 in full grown trees, which will be hereafter treated 

 of: I ftiall therefore, now, proceed to treat of the 

 management of fuch trees as are brought over every 

 year in chefts from Italy; which is, indeed, by much 

 the quicker way of furnilhing a green-houfe with 

 large trees ; for thofe which are railed from feeds in 

 England, will not grow fo large in their ftems under 

 eighteen or twenty years, as thefe are when brought 



over; and although their heads are fmall when wc 

 receive them, yet in three years, with good ma- 

 nagement, they will obtain large heads and produce 

 fruit. 



In the choice of thefe trees obferve firft, the diffe- 

 rence of their ftioots and leaves (if they have any 

 upon tliem) todiftinguilli their different forts, for the 



Shaddock and Citrons always make much ftronger 



flioots than the Orange ; for which reafon, the Italian 

 gardeners, who raife tliefe trees for fale, generally 

 propagate thofe forts, fo that they bring few of tlie 

 Seville Orange-trees over, which are much more va- 

 luable both for their flowers and fruit ; alfo prefer 

 thofe that have two good buds in each ftock (for 

 many of them have but one, which will always pro- 

 duce an irregular head;) the ftraitnefs of the ftem, 

 freflinefs of the branches, and pluiiipnefs of the bark, 



are necefl^iry obicrvatioi^s. 



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