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shady place, and if a frame be ready with bottom heat, 
plunge the pots to the brim. Shade them well with a 
double mat, which may remain till they have struck 
root; when rooted, take the sand and cuttings out of 
the pot, and plant them into single pots, in the proper 
compost. Plunge the pots with the young plants again 
into a frame, and shade them for four or five weeks, or 
till they are taken out with the pots, when they may 
be gradually exposed to the light. From various ex- 
periments, Mr. Henderson, of Woodhall, England, found 
that pieces of two-year-old wood struck quite well; and, 
therefore, in place of putting in cuttings six or eight 
inches long, he took off cuttings from ten inches to two 
feet long, and struck them with equal success. Although 
he at first began to put in cuttings only in the month 
of August, he afterwards put them in at any time of 
the year, except when the plants were making young 
wood. By giving them a gentle bottom heat, and cov- 
ering them with a hand-glass, they will generally strike 
root in seven weeks or two months.” 
The uses for which orange-trees are cultivated are 
principally their fruit and showy appearance, and the 
agreeable pleasure derived from the grove when in bloom 
and fruit-laden. Its wood is hard, compact, of a yel- 
lowish color, slightly odorous, and capable of being pol- 
ished, and is chiefly used in making fancy articles, such 
as boxes, dressing-cases, etc. 
The tree, while growing, is subject to the attacks of 
an insect, or bark-louse. Many remedies have been tried 
to prevent its ravages, such as fumigating the trees, 
smearing them with lime, potash, sulphur, quicklime, 
salt, glue, etc., but all have proved ineffectual to arrest 
the action of this sly destroyer. 
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