. 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. 766 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part III. The names and some descriptive traits of these seventy-four sorts of citrus will be found in A Short Delineation of Dr. Sicklers Treatise, by Dr. Noehden, in the Hort. Trans, vol. iii. App. 4881. Gallesio (Traite du G
. 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. 766 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part III. The names and some descriptive traits of these seventy-four sorts of citrus will be found in A Short Delineation of Dr. Sicklers Treatise, by Dr. Noehden, in the Hort. Trans, vol. iii. App. 4881. Gallesio (Traite du Genus Citrus, &c. Savonna, 1818.) has given a synoptic tree {fig. 509.), in which he has introduced ramifications which display an arrangement of the forty principal sorts cultivated in Italy. 509 «; %. v \ --% *j % V X. nobilis et decumana, (f^jwfcv ^&»&i3| us^edtca, Umon et aada 4882. The most splendid work on oranges which has yet appeared is the Histoire Naturette des Orangers, by Risso, of Nice, and Poiteau, of Versailles. {Paris, fol. 1818.) Here 169 sorts are described, and 105 of them figured, and their French and Italian culture given at great length. They are arranged as sweet oranges, of which they describe 43 sorts ; bitter and sour oranges, 32 sorts ; bergamots, 5 sorts ; limes, 8 sorts ; shaddocks, 6 sorts ; lumes, 12 sorts; lemons, 46 sorts ; citrons, 17 sorts. 4883. All the species of citrus endure the open air at Nice, Genoa, and Naples ; but at Florence and Milan, and often at Rome, they require protection during the winter, and are generally placed in conservatories and sheds. The largest conservatory in Italy is that of Prince Antonio Borghese, at Rome, which contains seventy select sorts of agrurni. The largest trees are at Sorenta, Teracina, Gaeta, and Naples ; but the most regular and garden-like culture of the orange, is in the orange-orchards at Nervi, Mo- naco, and other places in the neighborhood of Genoa. At Nervi are also the orange- n
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