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other fruits of less brilliancy, though of more nutriment or 
flavour.” 
The first requisite to the culture of this noble plant is a 
strong rich soil, composed chiefly of friable loam from a 
common or pasture, with the addition of about a third of old 
hotbed manure and a rather less quantity of peat or clean 
sand, these thoroughly incorporated, afford a highly nutritious 
medium for the roots. The only other point of consequence 
in their management is to provide an agreeable temperature 
and some slight shade while the new wood is being formed : 
the usual greenhouse treatment will preserve them in excellent 
health at all other times, but then they require, and must have, 
if luxuriant plants are desired, a close humid atmosphere, with 
a temperature of about 60 °, and protection from the sun’s rays 
until the new growth is completed. 
Very little pruning is best for them, only just to keep them 
in order and proper form, except in the case of old trees that 
have become naked and unsightly ; these are much benefited 
by severely cutting back, being at the same time repotted and 
placed in heat, to induce them the more readily to form a new 
and luxuriant growth. 
Orange trees are frequently infested with two troublesome 
insects, the scale and mealy bug. The most effectual remedy 
for them is, spunging all over the plant with warm soap suds, 
and afterwards cleaning with the syringe, attention to the above 
and the usual routine, watering, &c. with an occasional supply 
of liquid manure, will insure handsome healthy plants, and 
plenty of fruit. W. 
LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
OitCHiDACEiE. — Gynandria Monandvia. 
Epidendrum verrucosum. This beautiful and fragrant plant has been ob¬ 
tained from Mexico by Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered in July last 
It is not very nearly related to any kinds hitherto discovered; belongs to the 
same set as E. tessellation and Candolli, from all which its stems and flower- 
stalks, closely covered with minute asperities; and its rich crimson flowers, 
which are as much as three inches in diametei', readily distinguish it. Its 
closest affinity is perhaps with E. phceniceum, a native of Cuba, and E. Han - ■ 
burii ; but both those plants have the middle division of the lip two-lobed ; 
and they are not, that we are aware of, fragrant. — Bot. Reg. 
RosACEiE. — Icosandria Hi- Pentagynia. 
Crataegus crenulata. This plant is the Pyracantha of the Indian mountains + 
