no Oranges and Lemons of India. 



lime. Excepting the last, the other additions should 

 be freely used. If the trenching is done during the 

 rains, all these ingredients may be applied fresh, as 

 they will soon decay at that season. Care should be 

 taken to thoroughly incorporate these fertilizers with 

 the whole soil, as it is turned over, and not to bury 

 them all at the bottom of the trench, and so place 

 them for years out of the reach of the roots of the 

 young trees which they are intended to nourish. 



" For stiff clay soil, brick kiln refuse, the rougher, 

 the better, coal ashes, wood ashes, indigo refuse, 

 leaves, stable litter, bazar sweepings, and lime should 

 be used, either the whole, or in part, as may be 

 available, the object being to counteract the natural 

 adhesiveness of the soil, and make it as friable as 

 possible. A free open soil is, I believe, a matter of 

 great importance for the successful growth of the 

 whole of the orange and lemon tribe, and what is of 

 still equal importance is good subsoil drainage. A 

 wet, waterlogged soil, I would pronounce as utterly 

 unsuited for growing oranges and limes. 



" The soil of the Azores, where the famous St. 

 Michael's oranges are grown, is described ' as 

 generally a friable loam mixed with volcanic matter ; 

 for the most part this soil is said to be of considerable 

 depth, but many orange gardens are formed in places 

 where there is not more than fifteen or eighteen 

 inches of soil above the shattered mass of rocks and 

 rubble.' This very clearly points to the desirability 

 of a free, open soil, and also of a good subsoil drainage. 



" Some experiments bearing on these two important 

 points were begun in the Horticultural Garden of 

 Lucknow in 1879. The object at first was to 

 ascertain if the common ' kaghzi* lime would grow 

 in old demolition mortar, but subsequently the effect 



