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OBCHAKD HOUSES. 



Others who for years grow oleanders, figs, oranges, etc., 

 in tubs. One-year-old trees from the nursery are the best 

 witli which to commence. 



Management. — The young tree being potted, using good, 

 fresli turf loam two parts, and one part well-decomposed 

 manure, cut it back to about one foot, and if there are 

 any side branches grown, cut them back to one or two 

 buds. The first season the tree may be grown in the open 

 air, the pots or boxes plunged in the ground. As the 



Fig. 148.— SECTION OF MOVABLE HOUSE ON IRON SUPPORTS. 



young shoots grow, the side branches should be stopped 

 wdien they have made a foot or so of growth. Watering 

 must be attended to during the heat of summer, but as 

 autumn approaches it should be graduated, in order to 

 have the wood ripen off finely. 



In autumn, as soon as the wood is well ripened, or on 

 approach of cold weather, the trees should be removed 

 to the house, the boxes plunged in soil, and the whole 

 covered with mats or straw. If the house is not ready, 

 the trees may be stacked on their sides in a shed, and pro- 

 tected by having straw or leaves packed in, among, around, 

 and over them. 



We have found this practice quite successful and much 

 superior to that of a cellar. 



