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ON GROWING FRUIT-TREES IN POTS. 
like other cropped soils; occasional supplies of manure laid on the sur¬ 
face over the roots during winter, and slightly forked in during the 
spring every second or third year, would always keep the border in 
good heart. Liquid manure applied during summer is also of great 
service to bearing fruit-trees, and an excellent means of enriching an 
exhausted soil. 
As garden walls are usually covered with trees on both sides, it has 
been deemed advisable to have walls raised on arches, and thus to allow 
a more extensive range for the roots. But it appears that as wall trees 
are only exposed to half the atmosphere, a single border on one side is 
amply sufficient for the spread of the roots; and besides, as wall trees 
are often unfruitful from their too vigorous growth, this luxuriance 
would be still more advanced by allowing the roots to run behind as 
well as in front of the wall. 
ON GROWING FRUIT-TREES IN POTS. 
Growing fruit-trees in pots, or boxes, is often had recourse to in 
small forcing-houses, and with various success. Oranges and figs do 
extremely well; and it has long been a practice to grow them in this 
way. The grape-vine, peaches, nectarines, and cherries, are often 
tried; and the custom in this country is rather gaining ground than 
falling into disuse. 
The principal advantage of the practice consists in the trees being 
portable, and at the same time, being on a small scale, are conveniently 
placed in any spare corner of a pit or other forcing-house; and when 
they have yielded fruit, are removable out of the way of others to 
succeed. 
In France and many other parts of the continent, orange trees are 
necessarily kept in boxes; for though the climate is most congenial to 
the trees in summer, they must be housed in winter, and in buildings 
more like barns than hothouses. The like treatment is received by 
orange-trees in this country, where they are chiefly kept for ornament, 
being but rarely cultivated for their fruit. 
Figs, as stated above, do excellently in pots ; and where there are 
suitable forcing-houses for their reception, ripe fruit may be had for the 
table in every month of the year. 
When it is considered that trees so cultivated have necessarily a very 
limited space for their roots, it will readily occur to every one, that 
