Volume 1

A discourse read at the annual election meeting of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, December 5, 1822 : upon delivering the prize medal ... to Mr. Walter Henderson ... for his memoir on the culture of orange-trees in Scotland / [Andrew Duncan].

  • Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A discourse read at the annual election meeting of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, December 5, 1822 : upon delivering the prize medal ... to Mr. Walter Henderson ... for his memoir on the culture of orange-trees in Scotland / [Andrew Duncan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be of much less real benefit to Scotland, than Mr Macdonald’s improvement in the culture of our Common Onion, or Mr Parkes’ introduc¬ tion of Sea-salt, as a manure in our gardens. By means of both these, every intelligent market gar¬ dener may derive a lucrative return, as the fruit of his skill and industry. But in point of price, our market gardener can never dream of bringing Scottish oranges, even by the most successful cul¬ ture, into the market, in competition with those of Spain, Portugal and other parts of Europe, where the climate is both more steady and more genial; and where the Orange-Tree grows with so little culture, that it is now considered almost as an indigenous plant. But as an object of curiosity, the Orange-Tree, by improved culture in Scotland, may afford sin¬ gular satisfaction to every Caledonian Horticul¬ turist. Self evident demonstration has now been afforded in this room, that, by aid of the protec¬ tion which we can always obtain by means of our glass, and by the assistance of the heat which we can easily command from our coal, we can pro¬ duce, at almost every season of the year, oranges in Scotland, which, in every respect, may bear a fair comparison with the oranges imported to us from climates, even the most congenial to that delightful tree. Besides this, the Orange tribe are highly de¬ sirable ornaments of our green-houses and conser-