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THE ORANGE. 
think it at all expressive, but because it is commonly applied, 
and therefore, for the present, best understood. “ Fancy Pelar¬ 
goniums” should, we think, intend those which have received 
so much attention for a long period, the larger-growing, pencilled- 
flowered, showing kinds; and for the comparatively new and 
dwarfer group now spoken of, we want a new appellation, which 
should express something of the peculiar neatness and copious 
style of blooming that distinguishes them, "Will some of our 
intelligent correspondents invent a name, suitable and euphonious, 
that will convey some idea of the plants, and by association as 
much of poetry as may warrantably be admitted to every-day 
nomenclature ? 
THE ORANGE. 
As it may not be uninteresting to many of your readers, I give 
you my mode of cultivating the above tribe. I will commence 
with their propagation, which is done in many ways, by seed and 
cuttings, by eyes, grafting, and inarching ; the seed may be sown 
any time between January and April, in soil consisting of equal 
portions of loam, leaf-mould, with a little silver sand or road 
grit, and placed in a moderate hotbed frame, or pit. When up 
and about two inches in length, they may be potted singly into 
sixty-sized pots, and replaced in the hotbed frame or pit until 
they have made their second shoot, keeping them shaded from 
the mid-day sun: they may be then gradually hardened so as to 
be placed in the conservatory or greenhouse with the more 
established plants; after their second season’s growth they will 
be fit for grafting or inarching upon, and any of our esteemed 
varieties it may be wished to increase are thus propagated. 
Cuttings mav be taken from the parent plants about the middle 
or latter end of February, made in the usual way, and placed in 
wide-mouthed pots or pans, well drained with potsherds or 
charcoal, filling the pots with soil as mentioned above, with a 
layer of white sand over the surface ; then place them in a hot¬ 
bed frame, and when well rooted, the young plants are to be 
treated the same as seedlings. The eyes may be made at the same 
time as cuttings, and formed in a similar way to the eye of a 
