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taken with tlie soil in the small pots, he grafts other 

 sorts on them. He strikes cuttings, engrafts, and 

 buds the Citrus tribe at any season. {Caled. Hort. 

 Mem. iii. 308.) 



Nothing can be easier than to raise young orange 

 or lemon trees from the seeds found in those im- 

 ported. Sow in pots and cover two inches, and they 

 will soon come up with or without bottom heat. The 

 succeeding spring transplant into small pots, and the 

 end of that season or the third summer, send for a 

 skilful gardener to bud on them whatever sorts may 

 be desired. This is an easy, expeditious, and agree- 

 able way for ladies and other amateurs to obtain yoiihg 

 plants. 



Subsect. V. Various Genera of Woody 

 Green-house Plants. 



We shall now give the names of what we think 

 ought to form the remaining stock of a small or even 

 moderately large green-house, where the object is, 

 as we have before noticed, not botanical curiosity, 

 but verdant and elegant beauty. We shall omit at 

 present succulents and bulbs, in order to treat of them 

 in sections by themselves ; and partly because we 

 think but very few of them are admissible in the 

 villa green-liouse. Though we have placed the 

 woody plants chiefly in the order of their flowering, 

 yet we have not adhered very strictly to this riile,^ — 

 sacrificing it occasionally, in order to bring sevei'al 



