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CULTURE OF THE ORANGE. 
to the air by degrees, and when all danger from frost has passed, 
plant them in the open ground. As soon as the flower buds appear, 
the plants must be taken up with as large a ball as possible, and 
planted in a pot or tub of a corresponding size. They must then be 
well supplied with water, and returned into the hot or green-house, 
where they will soon recover from the effects of the transplanting, 
and will flower beautifully and abundantly. These plants will be 
about five feet high and proportionately bushy ; indeed the S, Splen- 
dens, when treated in this manner, assumes a regular and handsome 
habit, which I fear is not often the case when treated in the way 
recommended by Sage. 
In a warm summer and autumn the S. Splendens will flower very 
beautifully, if planted on the open border. 
A Young Amateur, 
G. A. S. 
April Uih, 1832. 
ARTICLE VII. 
ON THE CULTURE OF THE ORANGE, 
BY MR. W. GREY, 
Bean front-Gardens, near Hexham, Northumberland. 
I BEG to send you the result of the culture of our orange trees at 
this place. My employer bought several that w'ere newly imported 
from Portugal and Spain; he has taken great interest in their cul¬ 
tivation, and has been at more trouble with them than was condu- 
sive to their health. They were in tubs eighteen inches diameter, 
he frequently stirred the soil on the surface of the tubs, (which 
broke the young fibres,) and gave them a great quantity of water 
at all seasons, until the soil became sodden and the trees sickly. 
They w^ere then removed from the green-house to a vinery, where 
they lost all their leaves; this was in the winter of 1830—31. 
They were then turned over to my management, when I considered 
myself placed in a similar situation to a physician who is called in 
when the disease appears incurable. I let them stand in that de¬ 
plorable condition all winter, and in the month of March I turned 
them out of the tubs, and put them in pots from eight to ten inches 
in diameter, (the trees were four feet high.) I used turf soil where 
sheep were folded at night, which had been previously prepared 
