1 94 Fruits and Fruit- Trees. 



the "pomolo,"* a fruit of less magnitude than the coarser 

 ones, and which, unless cut open very carefully when 

 serving at table, will quite flood any ordinary fruit-dish. 

 The pomolo is a rather favourite fruit in the East Indies. 

 The flavour reminds one of the muscatel grape: the 

 thickness of the rind allows of its being preserved in 

 good condition for a considerable length of time ; hence 

 it is that pomolos are brought to England even from 

 China. The shaddocks imported from the Azores and 

 the West Indies are decidedly inferior. The somewhat 

 pear-shaped "Forbidden fruit," sometimes distinguished 

 as a species under the name of Citrus Paradisi, appears 

 to be scarcely distinguishable from the pomolo. The 

 rind is less bitter ; the flavour of the pulp is uncertain ; 

 the value seems to reside chiefly in its ornamental char- 

 acter. The so-called "Adam's apple," when certainly 

 identified, may perhaps resolve into the same. Both 

 names, foolish at any time, have been applied vaguely 

 and inconsistently, and not uncommonly in the direction 

 of some of the varieties of the citron, f Under one or 

 another of the forms the decumana is occasionally met 

 with in English conservatories, and fruiting well, as, for 

 example, the Duke of Devonshire's at Chatsworth. 



* Also written pomeloe, pummelow, pompelmousse, and pompel- 

 mouse, but these names are also given to the large varieties. 



t The fruit of the Citrus Limetta has also received these names. 

 One of the bananas, the produce of the Musa Paradisi, is another 

 "Adam's apple." A third "Forbidden fruit" is produced by the 

 Tabermzmontana dichotoma of Ceylon, the side seeming to have 

 been bitten. 



