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potting the orange it is better to commence with a pot too small rather than 

 too large ; for, unlike the peach or the plum, it does not feed rapidly and 

 at once fill the pot with roots. Thus a tree two or three years old may be 

 potted into a 9-inch pot, suffered to remain for one year, and then removed 

 to a 13-inch pot, perforated as for other orchard-house trees, in which it may 

 remain (unless the house is very large, and a large tree is wished for) six, 

 seven, or ten years ; a portion of the surface soil may be removed, as directed 

 for other orchard-house trees, but not deeper than from 3 to 4 inches, early 

 in February, and the pots filled up with the above compost ; and about the 

 beginning of March a surface- dressing of manure should be given. I have 

 observed that the French cultivators strew fresh sheep's manure on the sur- 

 face ; they also place their trees in pure peat earth. I have not seen this 

 mode of culture in England, but it may be tried where peat is abundant." 



Such is the method proposed for this branch of orchard house cultivation, 

 and we hope to see the recommendation carried out. Gardeners must, 

 however, recollect that there are crab oranges as well as crab apples, and 

 that the fruit of most of the sorts in cultivation is quite unfit for the table. 

 We should not attach much importance to the Bloodred. It is among the 

 sorts grown in Italy, in Malta and Portugal, and in the Western Islands 

 that search must be made for the fine varieties that are likely to repay the 

 trouble that may be taken to grow orange trees for their fruit. If this is 

 not done nothing can come of the proposed experiment except disappoint- 

 ment. 



If bushes of the Ugenia Ugni, perhaps the richest in flavor of all the un- 

 common exotic fruits, were mixed with the orange plants they would give 

 variety to the appearance of a house, and enhance very materially its value. 

 In our own opinion the Ugni, when properly ripened, ranks with the vine 

 and the pine apple. Its fault is that the berries grow singly, and are no 

 bigger than black currants ; but on the other hand it produces its fruit in 

 abundance. — (Gard. Chron., 1856, p. .515.) 



Fine Specimen of Lilium giganteum. — We have just had our atten- 

 tion called to a magnificent specimen of Lilium giganteum — the " prince 

 of lilies " as it has been justly styled by Sir William Hooker — that has 

 recently flowered in the garden of the Hon. J. Townshend Boscawen, La- 

 morran Rectory, near Truro, Cornwall. From the drawing and account 

 with which we have been favored, it would appear to be the finest specimen 

 of the kind that has yet been produced in this country, or perhaps in 

 Europe. 



The first knowledge that botanists had of this majestic lily was derived 

 from a figure and description of it given by its discover, Dr. Wallich, in 

 his " Tentamen Floras Nepalensis Illustratse," printed at Calcutta in 1824 ; 

 but the honor of introducing it is due to the late Colonel Madden, who sent 

 home seeds of it 1846 or 1847, and from these, as well as the more recent 

 importations that have been made by Messrs. Veitch and Son of Exeter and 

 Chelsea, we believe all the plants of it now in cultivation originated. The 

 first that flowered in Europe was a plant in the collection of Messrs. Cun- 



