74 Domestic JN'otices. 



trees, on a dry day, and, after being slijfhtly papered, packed in common 

 flour barrels, on the spot, there is no doubt but they would bear the voy- 

 age over to England, and arrive in a marketable condition. Few trees 

 are lon<;er lived than the orange, those of the orange groves of Spain 

 haviniT survived six hundred years; and few are more jiroductive, some 

 individuals having been known to produce, in one year, six thousand 

 oranges. The sweet orange, according to Dr. Turner, contains malic 

 acid; and, we may ask, might not an effervescing liquor, like cider, be 

 obtained from the juice? As a fruit, it is inferior to none. The pulp is 

 cooling and refreshing in fevers, inflammations, and scurvy, and altera- 

 tive in phthisis and dyspepsia. The bitter orange is employed in 

 making the well known |)reserve, marmalade; the peel is an aromatic 

 bitter; the roasted pul|) is an excellent application to fcetid sores; and 

 the negroes employ it as a substitute for soap, in washing their coarse 

 linens. From the flower a distilled water is prepared. {Macfaylen^t 

 Flora of Jamaica.) 



Art. III. Domestic Notices. 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. — The following are the names 

 of the dahlias which gained the prizes at the exhibition of this Society, 

 an account of which was given in our last volume, p. 452. 



First Prize. — Best twelve dissimilar blooms: Mary, (Dodds's,) Coun- 

 tess of Orkney, scarlet Perfection, (Brewer's,) Granta, Buist's Daniel 

 Webster, John, and Washington, yellow Perfection, Hermione, lilac 

 Perfection, Hon. Mrs. Harris, and Metropolitan Perfection, R. Buist. 



Second prize. — Bestsix dissimilar blooms: Marchioness of Abercorn, 

 Lady Northampton, Hermione, Levick's superb lilac, John Hampden, 

 and Romeo, A. Dryburgh. 



First seedling prize. — Best parti-colored bloom: Buist's Mrs. Rush- 

 ton, R. Buist. 



Second seedling prize. — Best self: Buist's Washington, R. Buist. 

 Some account of the Mrs. Rushton dahlia will be found in page 9. 

 It w^ill be seen, from the above, that Dodds's Mar}- stands among the 

 best. — Ed. 



Erylhrma Crista-gdlli. — This species, which flowered freely with me 

 in the open ground last September, I potted early in the winter, and it 

 has now shoots ten or twelve inches in length. It is a very l)eautiful 

 affair, and will probably be grown very generally another season. — 

 T., Ja7i., 1838. 



Mt«m/ws cardinulis. — I have this species in the window of my parlor, 

 between two and three feet high, grown from seed sown last sunnner, 

 late. I keep it there ibr the musky odor it ])Ossesses, which is to me not 

 disagreeable, and enhances, I think, the fragrance of its neighbors by 

 combination, as was very evident with a Daphne odora, which I had in 

 bloom. — Id. 



Camellias in parlors. — The only way to have camellias bloom in par- 

 lors, (as they are warmed at the present day,) is, to anticipate their 

 usual inflorescence, and cause them to swell their bnds in the fall. Mine 

 are all now beginning to start for a new growth, which I encourage, as 

 I am convinced it is the only mode. — Id. [Our correspondent is right 

 in his conjecture. It is almost impossible to keep a bud upon a camel- 

 lia from November to February in a room heated to the temperature of 

 70^ or 73"^ with anthracite coal. But if the i)lants make an early growth, 



