BOTANY. 138 
Orange (Citrus aurantiwm). Cultivated in gardens. 
Common Citron (C7. tuberosa). Cultivated in gardens. 
Seville, or Wild Orange, (Aurautwm acre, of Miller.) 
Grows wild. 
Sour Lemon, or Lime, (C. aeris). Grows wild. 
Common Lemon, (C7. limon). Grows wild. 
A few years ago, about 1854, the orange and lemon trees 
in the Bermudas were attacked by a minute insect, a species 
of Coccus, which caused sad havoc in the orchards. In a 
recent letter from a friend resident upon the islands, he gives 
the following particulars: “A few of the young lemon trees 
have escaped the disease, and some of the orange trees have 
also been saved by the simple means of cutting the tree down. 
within two feet of the ground, and washing the stem with soft 
soap and water. I observed this remedy, and performed the 
work myself, with four orange trees, and they are now shooting 
up finely ; and we have reason to think that the destruc- 
tive disease is fading away; but the cause or origin is 
perfectly unknown to us, except that it consists in a mass 
of the minutest insects, all of which appear to form a 
glutinous substance when the hand is rubbed over it. The 
island of Antigua, which, in former years, produced the 
best description of oranges, was visited by this blight, and 
when I was there, twenty-eight years ago, not an orange 
tree was to be seen. In these islands of Bermuda, the 
visitation seems to have passed or skipped over one or two 
parishes in its progress from east to west, which is some- 
what a mystery.” 
Orange and lemon walking sticks are in great requisition 
among the officers stat:oned on the Islands, and fine speci- 
mens are eagerly sought after, to carry home as presents to 
friends. 
