. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book 1. ORANGE TRIBE. 767. at Paris about thirty sorts may be obtained, much smaller plants than those from the other places named, but more scientifically grafted or inoculated. At Vallet's nursery at Rouen, is a collection of very large plants of the c
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book 1. ORANGE TRIBE. 767. at Paris about thirty sorts may be obtained, much smaller plants than those from the other places named, but more scientifically grafted or inoculated. At Vallet's nursery at Rouen, is a collection of very large plants of the common kinds. The catalogues of London nurserymen enumerate above thirty varieties of orange, twelve of lemon, and several varieties of the other species ; the plants are generally inoculated, and small, and are more calculated for pots than for planting in the soil for producing fruit. As being most useful for the British horticulturist, we shall place under each species the names of the varieties which may be procured in England. 4884. The common orange is the Citrus Aurantiuni, L.; the orange of the French ; pomeranxe of the Germans; and aran- cio of the Italians. (Jig. 510.) It is a middle-sized evergreen tree, with a greenish-brown bark; and in its wild state, with prickly branches. The fruit is nearly round, from two to three inches in diameter, and of a gold color. It is a native of India and China, but now cultivated in most countries of Europe; in the open air in Italy and Spain ; and in conservatories or green- houses in Britain and the north of Europe. The orange is sup- posed to have been introduced into Italy in the fourteenth cen- tury, above a thousand years after the citron. In England, the tree has been cultivated since 1629. Parkinson, writing at that time, says, " it hath abiden with some extraordinary looking and tending, when neither citron nor lemon trees could be preserved any length of ; 4885. The orange-trees of Beddington, in Surrey, int
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