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fruit, and soon to be covered with this spring's 

 flowers. The fruit itself is only good for preserving, 

 but it is wonderfully handsome, and no Orange- 

 tree could be more prolific. Surely the old plan 

 of having a separate Orangery is dying out in 

 England, except of course in the very stately 

 places. Thirty or forty years ago I think these 

 Orangeries were more common in gardens of less 

 pretension. I recall one, half green-house, half 

 summer-house, with its large sashed windows 

 opening to a lawn windows round which a dozen 

 creepers twined and blossomed ; inside stood the 

 great Orange-trees in their huge tubs, waiting till 

 the full summer, when they would be arranged 

 along the broad terrace walk in themselves 

 beautiful, and calling up a thousand fragrant 

 memories of Southern France and Italy. Now, I 

 generally see trimmed Bays or Laurels arranged 

 in porcelain pots, looking at once shabby and 

 artificial. Of course I do not suppose Oranges 

 worth growing except (a rather large exception) 

 for their beauty ; with Lemons it is different 

 they are certainly worth growing, but then 

 they do best trained up against the back of a 

 moderately heated house, and not moved out in 

 summer. 



