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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ October, 
head night and morning, and keeping the soil in a proper state as to moisture. 
When the young shoots have each made three or four leaves, take off the 
points, and encourage a second growth. By the end of August let the plant be 
placed in a cooler temperature, and be kept rather short of water. After resting 
a few weeks they may again be placed in the stove, and syringing and watering 
attended to, as before directed. 
When it is desired to have the plants in bloom early, they should be placed in 
the stove from eight to nine weeks previous to the time they are required to be 
in bloom. Later in the season, from six to seven weeks will be sufficient time to 
allow to bring them into bloom. As soon as the flowers begin to open, place the 
plants for a few days in a temperature of about 50°, and they may then be taken 
to the conservatory, where they will give a succession of flowers for several weeks. 
When the blooming is over, remove all decayed flowers, repot the plants, and 
proceed as before directed. In two^or three years nice specimens may be grown. 
Some branches may perhaps show a tendency to take a decided lead, but by 
bringing down the tops of any such, and tying them so as to keep the point lower 
than the rest of the branch, the growth of the plant will be equalised, and growths 
of this kind will be prevented from taking an undue lead.— Henry Ghilman, 
Somerley. 
UTILISATION OF ORANGE-PEEL. 
l^pHEEE have been so many deaths from accidents caused by Orange-peel 
flung on the pavement, that stringent rules have been enforced to stop 
f such a dangerous practice. One of the best means of stopping this thought¬ 
less scattering of Orange-peel is to employ it in some useful way, so as to 
take it quite out of the highways, and turn it to some beneficial purpose. In 
cider-making places, the apple-skins and straw, after pressing, are used for fuel; 
and however odd it might seem at Newcastle, it is quite natural at Hereford and 
Exeter, not only to burn the apple-skins, but likewise to save the ashes, and put 
them through the turnip-drill like guano, for which purpose they are carefully 
housed from rain. Again, the hard rind of the cocoa-nut burns with a flame 
like that of an oil-lamp, and when it is broken in small pieces it is superior to 
most articles for kindling a fire. 
I have named these apple-skins and nut-shells to prepare the reader for the 
using of orange-peel for the same end. Whoever has studied plants, must have 
remarked that the natural order Myrtacece has every leaf neatly larded with oil- 
bottles. The leaf of the Orange, and those of the Aurantiaceos^ to which it 
belongs, are also studded with minute oil-vessels, and if you hold up a leaf to the 
light, the oil-cysts will be seen from their being transparent. Now, the rind of 
the Orange-fruit—f.e.. Orange-peel—is, like the foliage, also studded with oil- 
bottles, and if the peel is strung on a thread and dried, the oily parts will, as 
soon as the watery part is evaporated, burn brightly and kindle other fuel. The 
Orange-flowers have au honoured place at nuptials ; the sweet juice is a luxury; 
