01S PROPAGATING LAURELS. 201 



ON STRIKING AND SUBSEQUENT CULTURE OF THE ORANGE, 



AND CITRON. 



BY MR. W. WHALE, ELCOT PARK, NEWSBURY, BERKSHIRE. 



I beg leave to communicate to you my mode of cultivating the 

 Orange and Citron, which I have practised for many years with 

 great success, which may be of service to some of your sub- 

 scribers—that is from single eyes with a leaf attached to it ; I 

 immure the eye in the mould about half an inch deep, and they 

 begin to make roots very soon, sending up a strong shoot at the 

 same time. I have stuck fifty to a hundred in a large sized pot, 

 and scarce one of them failed, and of course a plant on its own 

 bottom is preferable to a plant introduced on another stock. 

 When potted, they should be watered liberally, and introduced 

 into dung heat and shaded. I find they strike most readily 

 in a cucumber bed, the pots plunged to their rims. The com- 

 post I generally use is rich loam and rotten dung, the pots 

 well-drained, and about three inches of soot at the bottom of the 

 pot, if a little old mortar, so much the better. I also find the 

 Dahlia strike very freely from single eyes, and much the best 

 mode for summer propagation when you wish to propagate va- 

 luable seedlings, as they make strong plants by autumn. I also 

 find Bigonias strike freely by the same method. If you thrnk 

 this worthy of a place in your Cabinet, you are at liberty to pub- 

 lish it. 



W. Whale. 



ARTICLE V. 

 ON PROPAGATING EVERGREENS. 



BY PRIMULI'S SCOTICA. 



I have lately observed a method most successfully practised by 

 a friend of mine in Argyleshire, which is not, 1 think, sufficient- 

 ly known. He plants in an oval or circular space, prepared as 

 usual, as many shoots of the year's growth as it will hold closely 

 placed ; he fences the plot with brushwood, and never thins 

 i In in. In three or four years the shoots unite into an extended 

 and beautiful bush, and in two years they are an ornament to the 

 woods and shrubberies. 



My friend has some fine old Laurels, with bare and unsightly 

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