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ORANGE GROVES. 



raised from pips of the bitter orange, and when the 

 stocks are four years old they bud them with two or 

 three eyes of the sweet orange. The orange groves are 

 reckoned of great value. The trees are planted at the 

 instance of 21 or 22 feet each way, and, in good years, 

 will yield from 1,000 to 1 ,200, or even 1 ,500 oranges each. 

 They are irrigated every ten days, and the soil is dis- 

 posed in small trenches to allow the water to spread. 

 This plantation was watered by means of a steam en- 

 gine, which was erected in a neighbouring tan-yard. 

 Seville also exports wool and oil ; but very little wool 

 has been exported this season, in consequence of an ex- 

 pectation that Saxony wools would be excluded from the 

 ports of England on account of the cholera morbus. 

 Prices have risen so largely, on this account, that the 

 merchants cannot execute the orders of their corre- 

 spondents. The wools shipped from Seville are those 

 of Estremadura, and are of inferior quality. The chief 

 shipments of the Segovian and Leonesian fleeces are 

 made from Bilboa. I believe no person in New South 

 Wales was aware, at the time the prices of their wools 

 sunk more than 50 per cent, in the English market (4 or 

 ^ years ago), that the Spanish Government had repealed 

 an export duty of two rials (about 5d,) on the wools of 

 Estremadura, and three rials (about 7^d.) on those of 

 Segovia and Leonesia; and thus enabled wools to be 

 exported to a vast extent, which would never otherwise 

 have reached the English market. About 50 vessels, of 

 from 80 to 120 tons burthen, are annually loaded with 

 oranges and lemons at Seville. The chief plantations 

 are at some distance from the town. It appears to be 

 a fruit not much used by the inhabitants themselves. 

 There was scarcely an orange tree to be seen in private 



