ORANGE LIKE FRUIT 



FROM A LEMON TREE 



GiZA MuDiRiEii, Egypt, 



May 20, ipi8. 

 Dear Sir: 



I enclose herewith three photographs 

 of fruit taken from one tree. The 

 tree was received from Italy and planted 

 in the gardens of the Ministry of Agri- 

 culture at Giza, Cairo. It was supposed 

 to be a typical Italian lemon. In the 

 spring of 1917, it bore an excellent 

 crop of fruit. Instead of the fruit be- 

 ing that of the ordinary lemon, it proved 

 to be more spherical in shape, as shown 

 in Fig. 5. The color of the fruits 

 was that of a lemon, but many of them 

 were characterized by a raised longti- 

 tudinal orange-colored line on one side. 



This is shown in Fig. 4. Upon one 

 of the branches appeared a large fruit 

 which resembled a large orange in ap- 

 pearance and in taste. This is shown 

 in Fig. 6. There is no question of 

 the branch which bore the orange fruit 

 having arisen from an additional graft. 

 Several twigs of the same branch bore 

 lemon fruits, such as those shown in 

 Figs. 4 and 5. The tree itself is a 

 grafted tree, but evidently the l)uds em- 

 ployed in its propagation had been taken 

 from a hybrid tree between an orange 

 and a lemon. I send this information 

 in case it is of interest to you. 

 Yours faithfully, 



Titos. W. Brown. 



FRUIT <,U()W\ ON A TREK SI I'POSKD TO HK A LEMON 



Raised orangc-colort-d line on one side longitudinal to the fruit. (Fig. 4.) 



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