. An encyclopædia of gardening; . 5908. The Italian process of raising and budding. 3 D In the orange-nurseries at Nervi, 770 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Faht the seeds of the citron or orange, as it may happen, are sown in beds in the open groundin February or March, and in September planted out in compartments, in rows generallyabout eighteen inches wide, and the plants six or eight inches in the row. They areplaced thus close to draw them up with clean straight stems. There they remaingenerally four years, and in April or May of the fifth year they are taken up, their rootscut within four
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . 5908. The Italian process of raising and budding. 3 D In the orange-nurseries at Nervi, 770 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Faht the seeds of the citron or orange, as it may happen, are sown in beds in the open groundin February or March, and in September planted out in compartments, in rows generallyabout eighteen inches wide, and the plants six or eight inches in the row. They areplaced thus close to draw them up with clean straight stems. There they remaingenerally four years, and in April or May of the fifth year they are taken up, their rootscut within four or six inches of the tap-root, which is also shortened to six or eightinches, according to the size of the tree. The stem, if it has any side shoot§, is prunedclean, and sawn off horizontally, at such a height as that the section is from half aninch to an inch in diameter. {Jig. 511. a) Thegeneral heights are one foot, which forms thelowest-growing plants; eighteen inches fortrees to be sold m Italy; from two to fourfeet for trees to be sent abroad; and five orsix feet for extraordinary orders. These lastare not so common ; as the stocks require sixor
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