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their fruit not render them worth keeping) suitable to every 

 purpose of useful or ornamental planting-. While in a grow- 

 ing" state, they must be supplied with liquid manure to 

 strengthen and continue their growth; and, when this is ap- 

 plied, simple water will not be required. 



The liquid manure is prepared as follows : — take two bar- 

 row-fulls of fresh cow-dung, one barrow full of fresh horse- 

 droppings, without litter, and one barrow full of fresh sheep- 

 droppings, to which must be added one skepel of quick-lime 

 for each hogshead ;* it is to be made of the thickness of cream, 

 by adding water, when it will be fit for application. The 

 beds must be kept from weeds by occasional hoeing ; which, 

 loosening the soil, will admit the liquid manure more freely 

 to the roots. By a liberal supply of this manure, some of the 

 stocks will be large enough to receive buds or grafts for dwarf 

 trees, at twelve months old. 



The citrus may be propagated by cuttings, which may be 

 put in the ground at all seasons of the year, while the trees 

 are not forming- young wood. The cuttings must be formed 

 of the ripened and round-shaped stems ; cutting off the angu- 

 lar and less matured wood, and leaving a few leaves on the 

 upper part of the cutting. The cuttings being planted in a 

 light rich soil, may remain without water for some time,- 

 unless the season should be very dry. Shade them from the 

 glare of the sun ; and when they begin to shoot, treat them 

 as directed for the seedlings. It is hardly necessary to ob- 

 serve that cuttings of the best kinds only should be planted. 

 They should be made from 9 to 18 inches long, allowing from 

 2f to 6 inches being left above ground. The citrus cuttings 

 do not require glasses. 



Good kinds may also be increased by layers ; treating them 

 as directed for the mangoe, but allowing- them a richer soil, 

 and liquid manure. 



Where it is intended to rear stocks solely for grafting or 

 budding the orange upon, — the best is the Seville, or bitter 

 orange; next, the citron; and lastly, the sour lemon; the 

 last appears well adapted for the purpose in this colony, as 

 it thrives better than the orange, on light sandy soils. 



Budding and grafting are resorted to for the express pur- 

 pose of securing g-ood flavoured kinds of these fruits; and it 

 would be creditable to persons who possess old and healthy 

 trees, which produce an inferior description of fruit, to head 

 them in, and graft approved kinds upon the branches, as near 

 the trunk of the tree as possible. One scion on each stem 

 would be the best, as this method admits of a sloping cut, 

 which allows the fresh bark to cover the wound more readily 

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