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mixture of heath soil and good manure. By 

 those who carry on gardening as a trade, the pots 

 in which orange and lemon seed are sown are 

 buried in a hotbed, covered with a glazed frame ; 

 but this is because they are in haste : for them, to 

 gain time is to gain money. You, ladies, who 

 are not under the empire of the same necessities, 

 by sowing your seeds in February, a time'*of the 

 year when there is fire in your apartment, will have 

 the temperature of the interior of your portable 

 greenhouse sufficiently high for them to come 

 up in fifteen or twenty days. Your young trees 

 will be much better off under the shelter of your 

 portable greenhouse than any where else ; air or 

 light in excess would hurt them during the first 

 period of their growth. You will have the pleas- 

 ure of seeing them grow fast enough if you water 

 them moderately. Towards the month of July 

 they will already be strong; the panes of the 

 greenhouse ought frequently to be kept open, to 

 habituate the young orange trees to contact with 

 the air. Some of them can be grafted towards 

 the first of November ; the others in the spring of 

 the following year ; and when you see the first 



