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smooth, thin-rinded, sweet fruit, of which there 

 arc several sub-varieties in warm countries, 

 where they grow in the open ground. 



The Willow-leaved Orange Tree, with narrow 

 spear-shaped leaves, and Striped Willow-leaved 

 Orange. 



The Horned Orange is a common-sized tree, 

 producing oblongish i'l nit, which divide at the end, 

 the rind running out into divisions like horns. 



The Hermaphrodite Orange is a common- 

 sized tree, producing fruit partly like an Orange, 

 and partly Citron-shaped. 



The Dwarf or Nutmeg Orange has a low 

 stem, and small bushy head, growing two or 

 three feet high, with small oval leaves in clus- 

 ters, and numerous flowers in bunches, covering 

 the branches, succeeded by very small fruit. 

 This, when in ilower, is proper to be placed for 

 ornament in rooms or other places, which it 

 perfumes with its flowers ; but it requires care, 

 and is seldom in a perfect state of growth. 



The Striped and Double-flowered varieties are 

 most curious. 



The third species, in its native situation, is a 

 tree above the middle size, with spreading prickly 

 branches. The leaves are ovate, sub-acute, sel- 

 dom obtuse, very seldom emarginate, smooth, 

 scattered : petioles cordate-winged, the wings 

 as broad as the leaves : the flowers are white, 

 very sweet scented, in copious upright terminat- 

 ing bunches : corolla reflex : stamens about 

 twenty, nearly equal to the petals, collected into 

 a many-cleft tube: the berry or fruit spheroidal, 

 frequently retuse at each end, eight inches in 

 diameter, of an even surface, greenish yellow, 

 divided into twelve or more cells, containing 

 some a red, others a white pulp, the juice in some 

 sweet, in others acid. It is a native of India, 

 introduced into the West Indies by Captain 

 Shaddock. 



Martyn says that there are many varieties of 

 it, " one of which, superior to the rest in the 

 flavour and smell of the fruit, has a smaller 

 trunk, and sub-globular fruit, live inches in dia- 

 meter, yellow on the outside, white, and very 

 sweet within." 



Culture. — The method principally practised in 

 this climate for raising all these sorts of trees, is 

 that of budding them upon stocks raised from 

 the seeds; but they are likewise sometimes in- 

 creased by the operation of inarching. New 

 varieties are constantly raised from the seed. 



Raising new Varieties and Slocks. Some seed 

 should be provided from the most perfectly ri- 

 pened fruits of the different sorts that are wanted 

 early in the spring, at which time it should be 

 sown in pots filled with good light earth, being 

 covered to the depth of about half an inch, 



plunging them in a tan hot-bed, giving them 

 slight sprinklings of water and a free admis- 

 sion of air. When the plants have attained a 

 tolerably strong growth, which is mostly in 

 about eight or ten weeks, they should he gradu- 

 ally hardened to bear the full air, in which they 

 may be continued till the weather renders it ne- 

 cessary to remove them into the green-house. 



Some, however, in order to get them forward 

 more rapidly, prick them out singly, when 

 about two inches in height, into other pots, and 

 plunge them into a second tan hot-bed, watering 

 and giving them fresh air occasionally, and gra- 

 dually hardening them as in the preceding man- 

 ner. In this way they become large plants the 

 following year. 



But when the first mode is practised the plants 

 should, in the following spring, about the 

 middle of March or the beginning of the fol- 

 lowing month, be shaken carefully out of the 

 seed-pots, so as to preserve the roots as entire as 

 possible, and planted separately in small pots, 

 made about half full with a compost of mellow 

 loamy earth, and afterwards filled up with the 

 same sort, so as to support the plants well, shade 

 and water being occasionally given, till they be- 

 come perfectly established. It is the custom 

 with some, in order to have the plants more for- 

 ward as well as more straight and upright, to 

 plunge the pots, as soon as the plants have 

 been placed in them, in a tan hot-bed, covered by 

 frames and glasses, fresh air and water being 

 duly supplied. 



In these modes the plants are capable of fur- 

 nishing good stocks for budding upon the se- 

 cond or third year. And where two hot-beds 

 are made use of, many of them will be in a pro- 

 per state for the purpose the second year. See 

 Budding. 



For the purpose of stocks, the Citron, Le- 

 mon, and Seville Orange, are said to be the best, 

 as being the strongest shooters, especially the 

 last. 



When any of the plants appear particularly 

 handsome and of healthy growth, they may be 

 let remain, for the purpose of affording new va- 

 rieties ; but they are long in this way of raising 

 them before they produce fruit; and when that 

 happens, there is great uncertainty of their pos- 

 sessing any valuable qualities. 



After the plants have been thus propagated, 

 they only require the same management as other 

 exotics of the green-house kind. 



Method of budding them on the Stocks. The 

 plants, when they have acquired twelve or fif- 

 teen inches growth, and are about the thickness 

 of a large goose quill or rather more, are proper 

 fur the purpose. The buds should be procured 



