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vered over with the same soil, which has been drawn 

 aside. If a fork is not available a ' koddr' will answer 

 for digging in the manure. 



" In the case of trees which have been planted in poor 

 and untrenched soil, and which may not be thriving 

 satisfactorily, substantial benefit may be afforded by 

 digging a trench around the trees, 2 or 2\ feet deep, 

 and of the same width. This trench should then be 

 filled with a liberal addition of new soil, alluvial clay, 

 and such manure as may be available, care being taken 

 to mix the whole well with the earth taken out before 

 the trench is re-filled. 



''The distance which a trench of this kind should be 

 from the stems of the trees depends in a great measure 

 on the size of the trees, but three or four feet may be 

 regarded as a minimum distance. The point to be 

 kept in view is to bring the fertilizing matter as near 

 as possible to the main body of the roots without 

 destroying many of them in doing so. When the 

 trees appear to have exhausted this new material, a 

 second trench, with similar materials, may be dug out- 

 side the first, if the space, between the Citrus trees 

 admit of it." 



If the reader will look over the various modes of 

 cultivating and propagating the orange tree, he will 

 see that there are various ways of raising young plants 

 of almost any sort of Citrus. 



In Sylhet, and presumably in Bootwal also, no other 

 method of raising orange plants, except from seed, is 

 thought of. The Sylhet orange is admittedly a very 

 good orange, and the one grown in Bootwal is the 

 sweetest of the suntara type. The Sylhet orange of 

 Lucknow was originally raised from seeds of oranges 

 obtained from Calcutta by Mr. Hodges. It maintains 

 its upright habit like its parent in Sylhet. It is now 



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