310 On the Management of the Plants belonging to 



or butcher's yard, seven of sheep's dung, seven of good 

 rotten horse dung, and ten of old vegetable mould ; they 

 must be mixed together twelve months previous to use, that 

 time being necessary to bring the ingredients into a proper 

 state of pulverization. 



The composition water is prepared as follows : three wheel- 

 barrows full of cow dung fresh from a pasture field, two wheel- 

 barrows full of fresh sheep's dung, and two pecks of quick 

 lime are thrown into one hogshead of soft water ; the mixture 

 is frequently stirred for a week or ten days before it is used, 

 and when applied to the plants ought to be about the con- 

 sistence of cream. 



Previous to describing my method of cultivating the 

 planls I cannot avoid observing that in the usual manage- 

 ment of Oranges and other trees of the same description in 

 green-houses, however fine the plants, they only serve the 

 purpose of ornament, and are otherwise useless, never pro- 

 ducing any fruit fit for the table. This failure arises from 

 the common practice with most gardeners of taking these 

 trees out of the green-house when they put out the common* 

 green-house plants for the summer months ; whereas the 

 proper course which they ought to follow, is to keep them 

 in the house through the whole season, and to avail them- 

 selves of the removal of the other plants to apply the pecu- 

 liar treatment necessary to bring them into proper bearing. 



From the experience which my practice has given me, I do 

 not think that Orange and other similar trees require much 

 warmth in the winter months ; 1 therefore never suffer my 

 house to be heated above 50 degrees by fire heat until the 

 end of February, or the beginning of March, when, the trees, 



