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EXTRACTS. 



On the Management of the Plants belonging to the Genus 

 Citrus, in the Garden of Edward Miller Mundy, Esq., M.P., F.H.S., at 

 Shipley Hall, in Derbyshire. By Mr. Richard Ayres, Corresponding Member of 

 the Horticultural Society, Gardener to Mr. Mundy. — My green-house is forty- 

 nine feet long, and seventeen feet wide, with a glazed sashed roof, sloping to the 

 south; the back and sides are solid walls ; the front is nine feet and a half high, 

 and has six glazed folding doors, the intervals between which are tilled with fixed 

 glazed sashes. The floor is a stone pavement, and the house is wanned by a flue 

 built on arches, and carried under the pavement near to the front glass, the heated 

 air being admitted into the house through ventilators from a narrow air chamber 

 adjoining to the flue. The back wall, on the inside, is eighteen feet liigh, and 

 that, as well as the sides of the house, are covared with a trellis, the openings of 

 which are six inches square. Adjoining the back wall, at even distances from 

 each other, are six holes in the pavement, each two feet square ; in these are 

 growing bees in the following order: — 1, a Lemon; 2, a China Orange; 3, a 

 Lemon : 4, a Citron ; 5, a Seville Orange ; 6, a Lemon. They were planted 

 young, nine years since; the border of earth in which they grow extends 

 under the pavement, and their branches are trained to the trellis. In the same 

 manner, last year, a Citron tree was planted against the west side, and a Lime 

 tree against the east side ; and these are trained to the trellis at the two sides 

 respectively. Besides the above eight trees, there are twenty-two in tubs, seven- 

 teen of which were brought from Malta by Captain George Mundy, of the Royal 

 Navy, to his father, six years ago ; they were then small, but have grown finely 

 since, and the fruits they have recently produced have been excellent both for size 

 and flavour. In addition to these trees in tubs, other greenhouse plants in pots 

 are kept in the house in the winter season. The conservatory, of which a section 

 and ground plan are annexed is thirty-two feet six inches long ; it is divided 

 longitudinally into three borders ; the back border is three feet eight inches wide, 

 and its level is elevated three feet above the other part of the house by means of 

 a wall which supports it. A paved walk, two feet eight inches wide, is carried 

 over the border, so that only about one foot of it next the back wall is exposed to 

 view : in this border, at even distances, are planted one Lime, and three Lemon 

 trees; the Lemons are of my own working, they are nine years old from the bud, 

 and are now in a fine bearing state ; the lime was only turned out of a tub last 

 March. The centre border is thirteen feet broad; in it are planted, in a 

 double row, four in each row, at even distances, eight trees, viz. : two standard 

 China Oranges, one Dwarf China Orange, three Seville Oranges, and two 

 Maltese Oranges ; these last are young plants put in two years ago ; the other 

 six trees are all in a bearing state. In the front border, which is only four feet 

 wide, three trees were planted in 1818; one is a China Orange, three years old 

 from the bud, and the two others are Lemons. This house is also used for the 

 growth of Grapes : Vines are planted in the front of it, on the outside, and 

 trained up the rafters of the glass roof, being introduced through holes in the 

 front wall. The trees in each of the three borders of the conservatory are trained 

 in different ways. Those in the back border are fastened to a trellis against the 

 back wall. The trees in the centre border have their branches in part secured to a 

 row of stakes set along the front and sides of the border, at even distances from 

 each other; the stakes are each six feet in length above the ground, into which 

 they are driven about a foot and a half; such of the branches as can be brought 

 into contact with these stakes are fastened to them, the others are tied to stakes 

 placed irregularly in different parts of the border, but chiefly at the back; by 

 these means the branches are spread evenly over the whole extent of the border, 



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