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CULTURE OF THE GENUS CITRUS. 
tus going to decay, without due consideration, a green-house of brick- work was built 
all round them, and left on the top uncovered in the summer. I visited them, a 
year or two after, in their new habitation, and, to my great concern, found some 
dying, and all declining ; for although there were windows on the south side, they 
did not thrive in their confinement, but being kept damp with the rains, and want- 
ing a free, airy, full sun all the growing months of summer, they languished, and at 
last died. 
u A better fate has hitherto attended the other fine parcel of Orange trees, &c. 
brought over at the same time by Sir Robert Mansell, at Margam, (late Lord 
Mansell’s, now Mr. Talbot’s,) called Kingsey Castle, in the road from Cowbridge to 
Swansea, in South Wales. My nephew counted eight trees of Citron, Limes, Ber- 
gamottes, Seville, and China Orange trees, planted in great cases, all ranged in a 
row before the green-house : this is the finest sight of its kind in England. He 
had the curiosity to measure some of them. A China Orange tree measured, in 
the extent of its branches, fourteen feet ; a Seville Orange tree was fourteen feet 
high, the case included, and the stem twenty-one inches round ; a China Orange 
tree twenty-two inches and a half in girth. 
“July 11th, 1777.-— I visited the Orangery at Margam in the year 1766, in 
company with Mr. Lewis Thomas, of Eglwys Nynngt, in that neighbourhood, a 
very sensible and attentive man, who told me that the Orange trees, &c., were in- 
tended as a present from the King of Spain to the King of Denmark ; and that the 
vessel in which they were shipped being taken in the channel, the trees were made 
a present of to Sir R. Mansell*.'’ 
1. Propagation. All the species may be propagated by either seeds, layers, 
cuttings, budding or grafting. The three first modes usually to obtain stocks for 
budding and grafting. 
2. Lemon seeds are the best for stocks. After having procured sufficient, about 
the middle of February sow in thirty-two or twenty-four sized pots, filled with 
light rich mould, covering the seeds not less than a quarter of an inch, or more 
than half-an-inch thick with soil ; spread over the soil a little moss to keep the sun 
and air from drying it. 
3. After the seeds are sown, plunge the pots in a good hot-bed, where they must 
be allowed to receive not less heat than 75°, nor more than 80° Fahrenheit ; and in 
ten days or a fortnight they will be up, after which the moss may be removed from 
the top of the soil, and a little air may be occasionally given. 
4. In six weeks or two months the young plants will be ready to transplant into 
single sixty-sized pots, filled with good light loam. Be careful that the pots are 
well drained, which is of the greatest importance. 
5. When transplanted, again plunge the pots in a good hot-bed, with the heat so 
* It is not improbable that the vessel mentioned might have been taken by Sir Walter Raleigh, who 
was so much employed against the Spaniards in Queen Elizabeth’s reign ; and the Orange trees divided 
between the Carew and Mansell families. 
