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two qualities will recommend it as an ornamental addition 

 to lawns and pleasure grounds. 



December 7, 1819. The produce of some Orange and 

 Lemon trees, growing against a wall in the open ground, in 

 the garden of James Yates, Esq.* of Salcombe, near 

 Kingsbridge in Devonshire, were exhibited. These fruits, 

 though not selected samples, were very fine. Mr. Yates 

 gives the following account of the trees. His garden is on 

 the brink of a precipice, about fifty feet above the level of 

 the sea, and the temperature of the climate is such, that the 

 thermometer rarely rises above 76°, and seldom is under 

 30°, having been only once last year below the freezing 

 point. The trees are about fifteen years old ; they are 

 trained to a stone wall, with a southern exposure, twelve 

 feet high, to the top of which they reach ; they spread side- 

 ways about fourteen feet, and are still increasing. The soil 

 in which they grow is a tolerably rich deep loam. About 

 three years ago, (and neither before nor since,) they were 

 manured with a compost of rotten leaves, earth, and decayed 

 stable dung. For several years after they began to bear, 

 they had no covering whatever in the winter; but now, 

 more as a security against an extremelv severe winter than 

 from any necessity, they are protected by some glass frames. 

 The quantity of fruit they bear, before they are thinned, is 

 very great ; from fifteen to twenty dozen are usually allowed 

 to remain on each tree; these ripen well, are of excellent 

 quality, and grow to considerable size. The Lemons espe- 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. I. page 243. 



