132 7he Gardeners Kalendar. Apr* 

 Such Orange trees, or other exotick plants, 

 as want fliifting, fliould now be removed ; 

 and thofe which require larger pots or tubs 

 muft be placed therein, obferving, when they 

 are taken out of the tubs or pots, to part off 

 all mouldy or decayed roots, and wa(h their 

 ftems and heads, to cleanfe them from the filth 

 they have contradled by remaining in the 

 houfe ; and when they are new planted, they 

 fliould be duly watered j fuch of them as are 

 expofed to the open air Ihould be placed where ' 

 they may be fcreened from the winds, and 

 fliaded in the heat of the day from the violence 

 of the fun. By removing the Orange trees 

 early in this month, they will have time to 

 make new roots before they are fet abroad, 

 and will have ftrength to produce their flowers 

 in plenty. 



Thofe Orange trees which are not removed 

 at this feafon, (hould have the earth taken out 

 of the tops and fides of the tubs or pots, and 

 filled up again with frefti rich earth, and their 

 ftems and heads cleaned as bcfere : this will 

 ftrengthcn them greatly for flowering ; but you 

 fliould never apply any hot kinds of dung to 

 the furface of the earth, as is by fome unflcil- 

 fuUy pradlifed, to the deftrudtion of their trees. 

 If therefore you would lay any dung upon the 

 7 furface 



