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'your hot-bed, and having prepared a quantity of ffnall 
halfpenny pots, which are about five inches over at the 
top, fill thefe half full of good frelh earth, mixed with 
very rotten cow-dung; and then (hake out the young 
plants from the large pots, with all the earth about them, 
that you may the better l'eparate the plants without tear¬ 
ing their roots; and having half filled the pots with earth, 
put a (ingle plant into each of the (mall pots; then fill 
them up with the fame earth as before directed, plung¬ 
ing the pots into the new hot-bed, giving them a good 
watering to fix the earth to their roots ; and obferve to 
repeat the fame very often, for this plant, when in a hot-, 
bed, requires much water, but be fure to fcreen them 
from the fun in the heat of the day. In this method, 
with due care, your plants will grow to be two feet high 
by July, when you mull; begin to harden them by degrees, 
by railing your glades very high, and when the weather 
is good taking them quite off; but do not expofe them 
to the open fun in the heat of the day, but rather take 
off the glaffes, and (hade the plants with mats, which may 
be taken off when the fun declines ; for the violent heat 
in the middle of the day would be very injurious to them, 
efpecially while young. Toward the end of September 
you mult houfe them, obferving to place them near the 
windows of the green-lioufe, to prevent the damps from 
moulding their tender (hoots. During the winter leafon 
they may be often refrefhed with water; and in March or 
April, wafh their heads and (terns, to clear them from the 
filth that may have fettled thereon, during their being 
in the houfe ; and you mult alfo give them a moderate 
.hot-bed in the fpring, which will greatly forward them; 
but harden them by the beginning of June, that they 
may be in right order to-bud in Augud ; when you (hould 
make choice of cuttings from trees that are healthy and 
fruitful, of whatever kinds you pleafe, obferving that the 
fhoots are round ; the buds of thele being much better and 
eafier to part from the wood, than fucli as are flat. When 
you have budded the (locks, you (hould remove them 
into a green-lioufe, to defend them from wet, turning the 
buds from the fun ; but let them have as much free air 
as poffible, and refrefli them often with water. In a 
month’s time after budding, you will fee which of them 
has taken ; you mud then untie them, that the binding 
may not pinch the buds, and let them remain in the 
green-lioufe all the winter; then in the fpring, prepare a 
modera-te hot-bed of tanners bark; and, after having cut 
oft’ the (locks about three inches above the buds, plunge 
their pots into the hot-bed, obferving to give them air 
and water, as the heat of the weather (hall require; but 
be fure to fcreen them from the violence of the fun during 
the heat of the day. In this management, if your buds 
Ilioot kindly, they will grow to the height of two feet or 
more, by the end of July ; at which time you mult begin 
to harden them before the cold weather comes on, that 
they may the better (land in the green-lioufe the follow¬ 
ing winter. In the firft winter after their (hooting, you 
mull keep them very warm ; for, by forcing them in the 
bark-bed, they will be fomewhat tenderer; but it is very 
lieceffary to raife them to their height in one feafon, that 
their items may be (Iraight: for in trees, which are two 
or more years growing to their heading height, the (terns 
are always crooked. In the fucceeding years, their ma¬ 
nagement will be the fame as in full grown trees, which 
will be hereafter treated of: I (hall therefore now proceed 
to treat of the management of luch trees as are brought 
over every year in clielts from Italy ; which is, indeed, by 
much the quicker way of furniftiing a green-lioule with 
large trees ; for thofe which are railed from feeds in Eng¬ 
land, will not grow fo large in their items under eigh¬ 
teen or twenty years, as thefe are when brought over; 
and, although their heads are Imall when we receive 
them, yet in three years,. with good management, they 
will obtain large heads, and produce fruit. 
In the choice of thefe tree^, obferve, firlt, the difference 
of their fiioots and leaves, if they have any upon them, 
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to diltinguifli their different forts; for the (haddock and 
citrons always make much Jjronger (hoots than the 
orange; for which reafon, the Italian gardeners, who 
raife thefe trees for fale, generally propagate thofe forts, 
fo that they bring few of the Seville orange-trees over, 
which are much more valuable both for their flowers and 
fruit ; alfo prefer thofe that have two good buds In each 
(lock, for many of them have but one, which will always 
produce an irregular head : the llraightnefs of the (tern, 
frefhnefs of the branches, and plumpnefs of the bark, are 
neceflary oblervations. 
When youjrave furniflied yourfelf with a parcel of trees, 
you mull prepare a moderate hot-bed of tanner’s bark, 
in length and breadth according to the number of trees 
to be forced : then put your trees into a tub of water 
upright, about half way of the Items, leaving the head 
and upper part of the Item out of water, the better to 
draw and imbibe the moifture. In this fituation they may 
remain two or three days, according to their plumpnefs 
when you received them; then take them out, and clean, 
their roots from all filth, cutting offiall broken or bruifed 
roots, and all the fmall fibres, which are quite dried by 
being fo long out of the earth, and fcrub the Items with 
a hard hair brulh, cleaning them afterwards with a cloth ; 
then cut off the branches about fix inches from the Item, 
and having prepared a quantity of good frelh earth, mixed 
with very rotten neats dung, plant your trees therein, 
obferving never to put them into large pots; for, if they 
are but big enough to contain their roots, it is fufficient 
at firlt planting ; and be fine to put fome potlberds and 
large (tones in the bottom of each pot, to keep the holes 
at the bottom of the pots from being (topped with earth, 
that the water may freely pafs off, and wrap fome hay- 
bands round their items, from bottom to top, to prevent 
the fun from drying their bark ; then plunge thefe pots 
into the bark-bed, watering them well to fettle the earth 
to their roots, frequently repeating the fame all over then 
heads and (terns, being very careful not to over-water 
them,-efpecially before they have made good roots ; and 
obferve to fcreen the glaffes of your hot-bed from the fun 
in the heat of the day. If your trees take to grow kindly, 
as there is little realon to doubt, if the directions given 
be duly obferved, they will have made (trong fhoots by 
the beginning of June ; at which time you (hould (top 
their (hoots, to obtain lateral branches to furnifh their 
heads; and now you mud give them air plentifully, ana 
begin to harden them, that in the middle of July they 
may be removed into the open air, in fome warm fitua¬ 
tion, defended from the great heat of the fun, and from 
winds, that they may be hardened before winter. About 
the end of September you (liquid houfe thefe plants, fet- 
ting them at firft in the front of the green-lioufe, near 
the glades, keeping the windows open at all times when 
the weather- will permit; and about the latter end of 
OCtober, when you bring in the myrtles, and other lei's 
tender trees, you mud let your oranges in the warmed 
and bed part of the houfe, placing lower plants or trees 
in the front, to hide'their denis. During the winter, let 
your waterings be frequent, but give them not too much 
at a time ; for now their heads are but fmall, and there¬ 
fore incapable to difcharge too great a quantity" cf moif¬ 
ture, and take great care to guard them from frod. 
In the fpring, when you begin to take out fome of 
your bardied forts of plants to thin your liouie, wafh and 
cleanfe the (terns and leaves of your orange-trees, taking 
out the upper part of the earth in the pots, filling them 
up again with’good, frelh, rich, earth, laying thereon a 
little, rooten neats dung round the outiide or the pots, 
but do not let it lie near the deni of the trees; then place 
them at wider didances in the houfe, that the air may cir¬ 
culate round tlieir heads, giving them air difcretionally, 
as the weather grows warm ; but do not remove them into 
the open air until the latter end of May, that the weather 
is fettled; for many times, when they are removed out too 
loon, the mornings often proving cold, give them at lead . 
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