112 JOURNAL. BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



The fruit attains 8 ozs. in weight, is in shape a much depressed globe, with a 

 distinct nipple at the stalk, and within the skin on the upper end generally 

 has an extra orange, about £ inch in diameter, with 5 to 7 liths (carpels). The 

 skin is of a dusky yellow colour moderately rough and loose and of medium 

 thickness ; the inner skin (endocarp) very thin and enclosing juicy s-weet pulp 

 of pieplant flavour and medium tint of colour. This is a fine orange, but it 

 does not bring a high price, on account of its indifferent appearance. 



Lull Ladoo of the Deccan. 

 I have identified this orange with the Mandarine orange of books. The tree 

 resembles the "Ladoo" in habit, leaves and flowers, and shape of fruit, but 

 the skin of the fruit is a deep orange colour, smooth, loose, enclosing 11 liths, 

 having a stronger inner skin than the " Ladoo,'''' and 20 seeds — a very handsome, 

 attractive fruit. 



Cowla, a small-sized, indifferent orange, which becomes yellow on the tree 

 before it is sweet. 



The Sylhet orange, which is common in the Calcutta market, is grown in 



the country whose name it bears. It averages o 

 ounces, has a tight thin skin and good flavour. 

 The Malta and St. Michael's oranges have been introduced, but are not making 

 progress wherever it is possible to grow the " Cintra." 



(3.) The finest oranges in India and, in the opinion of some, in the world, 



are grown near Nagpur, which lies in north 

 latitude 21" 9', and east longitude 79° 11', about 

 350 miles from the sea, and at an altitude of 1,025 feet above mean sea level. 



The orchards are fully exposed to the sun and oh level ground, having a 

 dark-coloured, stiff, loamy soil not less than 3 feet in depth, and overljing a 

 sub-soil of open nodular limestone. The soil is formed of disintegrated basalt. 

 (4.) The climate of Nagpur is shown in the following table, which is 



compiled from the Government Meteorological 

 Reports : — 



Climate details. 



Introduced foreign oranges. 



Locations. 



Climatic influences. 



Note. — The climate details are average for five years. 

 It may be described as comparatively hot and moist from June to September 

 inclusive, cool and dry from October to February, hot and dry from March to 

 May. It must be noted that the temperature is taken under standard meteoro- 



