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THE ORANGERY. 



glass roofs, and such are also those in the royal gardens at Kew, Hampton 

 Court, and Windsor Castle. A very good Orangery may be constructed, 

 consisting of windows placed (the whole height of the front) between 

 stone, wood, or brick columns or piers, with sufficient entablature and. 

 cornice to show its architectural character. The interior arrangements 

 are exceedingly simple, there being required only a brick or well-rolled 

 gravel floor for the tubs, boxes, or pots to stand on, and a flue or hot 

 water pipe to extend round it under the floor level. 



PROPA:GATIOX AND GENERAL TREATMENT W^HILE YOUNG. 



Oranges and their aUies, like all fruit-bearing trees, are propagated by 

 seeds, but, for the most part, these are only used for stocks, on which to 

 graft, inarch, or bud more approved kinds. The seeds should be sown in 

 light, rich mould, placed in a gentle heat. AMien the young plants have 

 attained the height of two feet or so, and about the thickness of a quill, 

 they may then be grafted or inarched. The former process is usually 

 and most successfully accomplished in a close, moist, warm frame or pit. 

 The scion is put on upon the whip principle, secured by a strip of mat- 

 ting, and covered over with a small quantity of moss, kept a little damp. 

 This is the best process when small and handsome plants are desired. 

 Oranges have been successfully propagated by cuttings ; and, perhaps, if 

 due attention be paid to this mode of culture, handsome small trees may 

 be obtained by it as soon as by any other. The following is the process 

 followed by the late Henderson, of Woodhall, who was most successful as 

 a cultivator of this tribe. " Take the strongest young shoots, and also a 

 quantity of the two-year old shoots ; these may be cut into lengths from 

 nine to eighteen inches. Take the leaves off the lower part of each 

 cutting, to the extent of about five inches, allowing the leaves that remain 

 above that to remain untouched ; then cut right across, tmder an eye, 

 and make a small incision, in an angular direction, on the bottom of the 

 cutting. When the cuttings are thus prepai'ed, take a pot and fill it with 

 sand, size the cuttings so that the short ones may be all together in one 

 pot, and those that are taller in another ; then, with a small dibble, plant 

 them about five inches deep in the sand, and give them a good watering 

 over head, to settle the sand about them. Let them stand a day or two 

 in a shady place, and if a frame be ready with bottom heat, plunge the 

 pots to the brim ; shade them well vrith 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 proper compost. Plunge 

 the pots with the young plants again into a frame, and shade them for 



