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place, depends a good deal on the state both of the stock and 

 bud, but four or five weeks, under ordinary circumstances, 

 will be near the truth. Those which appear to have taken 

 at the end of that time, should be gradually untied, and kept 

 well supplied with air and water, and occasional shading, till 

 the end of summer, when they should be taken into the orange- 

 house or gi'een-house for the winter. In the following spring 

 the stocks should be headed down to about two inches above 

 the bud, and placed, by the first week in March, into a mild 

 bottom-heat, and kept in a humid atmosphere. Great care 

 should always be taken in applying bottom-heat to this tribe 

 of plants; for, although they will sometimes appear to stand a 

 considerable degree of bottom-heat, still more injury is done 

 by too much of it than too little. The summer after budding, 

 they should be kept in a growing state ; and, if ordinary suc- 

 cess have attended the process, they will, by the beginning 

 of August, be plants of a considerable size. From that time 

 till tlie middle of October, they should be gradually exposed 

 to more abundant air and sun-shine, to ripen or harden the 

 young shoots of the season, to enable them to break strong 

 the following year. When the cold evenings set in, they 

 should be removed to the orange-house or gi'een-house, where 

 they are henceforth to remain. 



Propagating oranges by cuttings, as far as we can ascertain, 

 is comparatively a modern improvement in their culture, and has 

 been proved most successful by several cultivators of late years, 

 and we find it recommended by correspondents both in the 

 Transactions of the London and Caledonian Horticultural So- 

 cieties. In the latter, that very able cultivator, Henderson, of 

 Wood-Hall, gives the following as his practice, and considers it by 

 far the most expeditious method of procuring handsome plants: — 

 " Take the strongest young shoots, and also a quantity of the 

 two year-old shoots ; these may be cut into lengths from nine 

 to eighteen inches. Take the leaves off the lower part of 

 each cutting to the extent of about five inches, allowing the 

 leaves above that to remain untouched ; then cut right across, 

 under an eye, and make a small incision, in an angular direction, 

 on the bottom of the cuttingo When the cuttings are thus 

 prepared, take a pot, and fill it with sand ; size the cuttings, 



