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LEMON PLANTATIONS. 
-The management of a lemon plantation demands great attention. 
Trees should be trained high to admit free ventilation, pruning to take 
place regularly once a year. Dead wood, unhealthy and redundant 
branches removed. In cases of a heavy crop, the branches are to be 
supported. ‘Trees to be watered in summer with a little liquid manure 
in the water once a week, and the ground kept free from all under- 
growth. Market arasia is meni emere ure the trees 
because the vegetables grown pay expenses for ma M cultivation ; 
but it is not to be recommended, as the fruit euffars i in n 
destroys it. Grafting bsp place after three years, and is practised in 
the same way as on the ro 
Vice-Consul Piguatorre also fu rnishes Er with pEr Ps er 
on the subject. ‘Lhe tree Seah [in Sicily] an equal temperature. 
Lands bordering on we coastline are nin most favou rable, bes ided the 
Bue ground round lemon trees requires to be hoed three times a 
in May, in order that they may be easily watere in summer. water 
a plantation of 24 acres twice a week, the quantity of vatur PA is 
10,500 hectolitres to continue from May to September. 
The edet away of dried twigs and suckers precedes the Adee 
etimes renders the latter unnecessary. A p ae 
rhe enable the trees to resist the effect of a violent scirocco 
PICKLING Lemons. 
* The pickling of lemons for exportation is a very simple process. 
They are first cut in two and immersed in salt water for from t 
eight days; they are then placed in casks with alternate layers of salt. 
Salt water is then introduced to fill up spaces, and the cask is closed u 
ready for exportation. 
ORANGE FLOWER WATER. 
With all this there is another industry in this connexion which it is 
to be cha pont is lost sight of in Sicily; or, if practised, it is only on a 
ve mall scale, 7.e., that of collecting the petals of the blossoms, 
whcdik of orange or lemon, that oe off and cover the ground as soon 
as the fruit appears, for making orange- — water, which I have seen 
practised in other orange-growing pana 
CCCCLXXXI.— MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Weather and of Visitors in September.—Kew. 
common with other parts of the country, experienced exceptionally "ane 
warm weather during the latter part of the month of September. The 
lawns and borders were in excellent order, and visitors came in large 
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