. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. MV flourish. I only grow one or two trees for the blossom (fig. 377), which is the glory of bridal wreaths. We have a small Lemon-tree (C. Limonuni), and, really, this may be grown more frequently where there is room, for even in Italy as far south as Florence I observed that the lemon-trees were pro- tected in all the private gardens during win- ter and up to the month of May. Varieties of oranges are raised from pips: though Fig 377.— Orange blossom. trees ma
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. MV flourish. I only grow one or two trees for the blossom (fig. 377), which is the glory of bridal wreaths. We have a small Lemon-tree (C. Limonuni), and, really, this may be grown more frequently where there is room, for even in Italy as far south as Florence I observed that the lemon-trees were pro- tected in all the private gardens during win- ter and up to the month of May. Varieties of oranges are raised from pips: though Fig 377.— Orange blossom. trees may be freely raised in this way, they require to be grafted from approved sorts to have eatable fruit, as not one in a thousand seedlings may turn out good. Oranges may be propagated by grafting or by circumvallation. The blossom of the Otaheite Orange has a peculiar odour, which differs from the common orange. I have already mentioned that in Sir Walter Raleigh's time 10,000 of this fruit were grown in a single year at Beddington Park but it is doubtful whether its cultivation for its fruit is now desirable in England. THE CUSTARD APPLE. Amongst curious fruits, I have tried to raise seeds from the delicious Custard Apple, {Anona), which every winter is brought to Covent Garden Market. The seeds have grown only this year. Mr. Rivers has a tree, but it has not yet fruited. FIGS. The green Fig (Ficus Carica, fig. 378) is a delicious fruit, of which there are endless varieties: some are very small, as the White Ischia; others very large, as the Figue d'Or. Mr. Rivers has eighty-nine varieties in his catalogue., I have had manj' kinds, which did well in the back of my "i^kiiii^'^' vinery till the vines grew; the figs then ceased to bear, and were removed, because the exhalations of the foliage of the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may
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