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the orange-trees which are brought every 

 year from Italy, and sold principally at the 

 Italian warehouses in London, are as large as 

 those of our own growth would be in twenty 

 years. With proper care, these trees will have 

 good heads, and produce fruit in about three 

 years. The Mandarin orange was not culti- 

 vated in England until 1805. 



We have lately seen orange-trees import- 

 ed from the south of France, which have 

 arrived in small tubs; and so well packed, 

 that the fruit and blossoms remained on the 

 trees when they reached the neighbourhood 

 of London. 



In the Philosophical Transactions, No. 

 114, there is a very remarkable account of a 

 tree standing in a grove near Florence, having 

 an orange stock, which had been so grafted 

 on, that it became in it's branches, leaves, 

 flowers, and fruit, three-formed; some emu- 

 lating the orange, some the lemon or citron, 

 and some partaking of both forms in one. 

 These mixed fruits never produce any perfect 

 seeds: sometimes there are no seeds at all 

 in them, and sometimes only a few empty 



ones. 



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The Maltese graft their orange-trees on 

 the pomegranate-stock, which causes the 

 juice to be of a red colour, and the flavour 



