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were supplied with more than 200 baskets of figs, 50 of 

 ■which were from the first crop, and 150 from the second. 

 It is seldom, however, that a separate house is erected- 

 for this fruit. The fig succeeds very well as a dwarf 

 standard between the front fluos of a vinery, provided 

 the roof be not too closely covered with the foliage of 

 the vines. ' Of late, small standard figs have very com- 

 monly been grown in large pots, folirteen or'- fifteen 

 inches iix diameter, and placed in any of the_^forcing- 

 houses. In this way-considerable. crops of fruit have 

 been raised. The Figue blanche and the ^farseilles are 

 the sorts considered best adapted for forcing. 



The Orange Tribe (Citrus) are cultivated in Britain,- 

 rather as objects of curiosity and beauty than for the 

 purpose of afi"ording a supply of fruit. Commerce with 

 Portugal,, Spain, Italy,- and China, has brought this 

 class of fruits -^Yithin the reach of every one ; and the 

 copious importations which annually take place have 

 no -doubt discouraged the cultivation of the plants. A 

 few orange-trees are nevertheless to be met with in most 

 collections, and in large and sump.tuous gardens it is 

 not uncommon to meet avith glazed houses specially set 

 apart for their reception. 



The following brief notices of some of the cultivated 

 species of tho-genus 'Citrus are derived principally from 

 Mr. Gf Don's General System- of Botany and Garden- 

 ingy a work evincing singular accuracy and unwearied 

 research,, and from- Mr Ri.sso'a excellent paper in the 

 Annales .dii 3Iuseum, vol. xx. 



O. 3Ie4{ca, the Citi^on, the Ccdrate of the Italians, is 

 a small evergreen tree. The fruit is large, of an oval 

 form, and covered with a rough skin or rind, which is 



