GItEEN-IIOUSE AND CONSERV ATORA'. 



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movod, and wlien valuable or scarce plants become crowded 

 by those less valuable or choice, the latter should be cut away 

 by degrees to make room for them. 



At this season also, conservatory climbers should be ex- 

 amined and pruned, so as to produce shoots in such situations 

 as it may be desirable to have covered ; a general regulation of 

 them should also now take place ; and where any have died, or 

 are in a sickly state, their place should be supplied with young 

 plants, for which abundant provision should be made by hav- 

 ing, at all times, a sufficient stock of young ones for the pur- 

 pose. 



ORANGES. 



The orange being a native of India and China, although suc- 

 cessfully cultivated in the warmer parts of the South of Europe, 

 requires with us the protection of glass, at least for three parts 

 of the year ; and some cultivators, as we have elsewhere re- 

 marked, keep them always under cover ; and such is our view 

 of the subject, that to have this tree both healthy and fruitful, 

 it should remain always in that state. However, some culti- 

 vators manage to cultivate this tree, who adopt a different prac- 

 tice. In some parts of Devonshire it has been found to suc- 

 ceed in the open air, and trees are there pointed out that have 

 withstood the winter for more than a century, and producing 

 fruit as large and fine as any from Portugal. We may also 

 here remark, as a proof of the doctrine first laid down (if we 

 mistake not) by that valuable patron of horticulture, P. Neil, 

 Esq. of Edinburgh, that plants originated from seeds ripened 

 in the open air of this country, are most likely to produce a 

 progeny of hardier habits, and of all are the most likely to 

 become acclimated in this country. This is asserted to be the 

 case with the orange trees in Devonshire ; and we know from 

 observation that it is the case with many other exotics. Pro- 

 fessor Bradley, in describing the large orange trees, which once 

 grew at Beddington, in Surrey, says, that they always bore 

 fruit in great plenty and perfection ; and that they grew on the 

 outside of a wall, not nailed against it, but at full liberty to 

 spread, and that they were fourteen feet high, twenty-nine in- 



