182 OTTE, COMMON ERTJITS. 



In Prance the Lemon bears the name of Citron, though 

 the fruit which really claims that title is by no means 

 unknown there, and though the words limonade and 

 limonadier have been adopted into the language ever since 

 they were introduced by the sellers of this drink, who 

 came into France under the ministry of Cardinal Mazarin, 

 retaining the same name which they had borne in Italy. 

 But as French writers would never stoop to use a verna- 

 cular term whenever it was possible to employ one de- 

 rived from the Latin, and which must therefore have a 

 more scientific air, the word limon, eschewed in literature, 

 could never establish itself, and, as Eisso observes, the 

 people with strange obstinacy persist in calling the fruit 

 from which limonadier 's make limonade " un citron" He 

 himself, however, would not conform to a usage which 

 gives rise to such confusion, and, with the people of the 

 S. of Europe, throughout his work uses the terms limon 

 and limonier for what genteeler Paris would designate as 

 citron and citronnier. 



The fruits which we call Shaddocks, but which are 

 termed by the French Pompoleones or Pompelmouses, form 

 another division of the Aurantiwm group, more easily dis- 

 tinguished than any of the other families, being charac- 

 terized by large leaves, white flowers, similar to those of 

 the Orange, Lemon, and Citron, but of greater size than 

 any of these, and succeeded by large pale roundish fruit, 

 containing a not very juicy pulp of sweetish or insipid 

 flavour, the seeds mostly proving abortive. A native of 

 China, where it bears the name of " Sweet Ball," the larger 

 Shaddock, or Pompelmouse Chadec, as the French call it 

 in a rather lame attempt to do honour to our countryman, 

 was introduced by Captain Shaddock into the W. Indies ; 

 but the planters propagating it by seeds instead of, as 

 the Chinese had done, by budding, the fruit soon dete- 

 riorated and is of little value for eating. The smaller 

 Shaddock, which is but half the size of the preceding, 

 seems to have succeeded better, for it is said that its popu- 

 lar cognomen of "forbidden fruit" was given to it by 

 the inhabitants of Jamaica on the ground of their fini 

 ing its peculiar flavour so delicious that they could not 



