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Method of Grafting Oranges and Lemons. 



air or steam from getting to the plant ; the glass must not be 

 taken off, unless you find any of the leaves damping, and then 

 only till this is remedied, when it must be immediately re- 

 turned. The stocks must next be placed on a brisk hot-bed 

 of dung, and in about six weeks, the glasses may be taken off, 

 and the clay and binding removed ; but it will be necessary 

 to bind on a little damp moss, in lieu of the clay, and to keep 

 the glasses on in the heat of the day, taking them off at night ; 

 when, in about three weeks or a month, they will be fit to be 

 put into the green-house, where they will be found to be one 

 of the greatest ornaments it can receive. 



I should recommend the Mandarine orange for the first 

 trial, as the fruit is more firmly fixed than that of any of the 

 other sorts. I have, by the above method, had seven oranges 

 on a plant, in a pot, commonly called a small sixty, which I 

 conceive to be both curious and handsome. 



It is particularly necessary to have the glasses in the form 

 I have given, to prevent the damp from dropping on the 

 scion. 



I am, Sir, your very humble Servant, 

 n ' r . John Nairn. 



Batter sea, February 2], 1818. 



