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the writer recently, that the noble orange of China, the one 

 most highly esteemed by that people, and called by them 

 Mandarin, is a small, globular, smooth, thin-rinded fruit, 

 with the pulp adhering closely and firmly to the rind ; and, 

 that the loose-rinded orange that goes by the name of Tan- 

 gerine and Mandarin here, is not common in China, and 

 considered of little account, compared with the thin- 

 skinned, smooth fruit of that country Gallesio, also, gives 

 the same description of the China orange. 



Mr. Comstock further informs us that the loose-rinded 

 orange is undoubtedly native to Japan ; that it arrives at 

 its greatest perfection there, and is, par excellence, the 

 orange. Judge Van Valkenburg, who was formerly Min- 

 ister to Japan, and Dr. Geo. K. Hall, who has spent many 

 years in that country, confirm Mr. Comstock's views on the 

 subject, in the main. Sateuma formerly noticed herein, 

 belongs to this class, and bids fair to rival any other orange 

 of the loose-rinded or kid-glove variety. 



The Japanese and Chinese dwarf their fruit trees by 

 budding on some slow-growing stock, and produce orange 

 trees grown in pots, only two or three feet high, and bear- 

 ing hundreds of fruits to a tree. 



Our Northern friends, by adopting the Eastern 

 method, could have quite an orange grove in their conserv 

 atories. 



The stock chiefly used for dwarfing the orange is the 

 Citrus Tnfaliata, a hardy shrub of the citrus family, which 

 is well adapted for the purpose. To Dr. Geo. R. Hall, is 

 due the credit of introducing into this country many rare 

 and valuable plants, from Japan, among' which are several 

 specimens and varieties of the orange tribe, this among the 

 number. 



