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For stocks, sow Lime or Citron seed, which will 

 run up, if kept in a hot-bed, about twelve inches in 

 the first season ; in the next spring, transplant them 

 into small pots ; these may be budded the same sea- 

 son, or the following spring grafted ; but to have 

 vigorous plants, take from shrubs three or four years 

 old, or if you wish for high stems, five or six years 

 old. Give them a mild bottom heat, and the grafts 

 or buds will take the more freely : cover the grafts 

 with the bell-glass.* 



Oranges in this climate should not be exposed to 

 the open air, but kept under glass, not in the strong 



flare of the sun. They require shade in summer, 

 ut in winter may be placed any where, if protected 

 from frost. At that season they should be kept 

 rather dry, but when growing, they require frequent 

 watering and sprinkling. 



Light rich sod-mould, well rotted, mixed with one- 

 third of rotten dung, is a good compost for them. 



Large receptacles do not answer for them. The 

 pots or tubs should always be filled with roots, be- 

 fore the plants are shifted into others, and the bot- 

 toms well drained. 



This treatment applies to those which are raised 

 here, as well as to those imported from Italy, and 

 to be had at the Italian warehouses every spring, 

 in London, with strong stems, from four to five feet 

 high. The fruit comes to perfection ip this coun- 

 try, if the tree be planted in a terraced border, and 

 trained to a trellis-work at the back wall of the 

 green-house, where it produces a beautiful effect. 

 The flower is used as a preserve, or to make Orange 

 flower water. 



* The great Orange trees at Margam, in Glamorganshire, are put 

 out every summer. 



