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stalk. The peel is thin and smooth, the pulp is quite 

 seedless and very juicy. The tree is very productive and 

 is everflowering. This variety is still rather rare, but 

 being seedless, will be more planted when it is better 

 known. 



13. The PEAR-SHAPED LEMON. (M.=foretta). 

 There are several forms of the pear-shaped lemon, but 

 all are distinguishable from the lemons by the small and 

 narrow foliage, the small blossoms with long thin petals, 

 and the pear-shaped elongated fruits, usually with a very 

 thick peel and sub-acid pulp. The fruit is often eaten 

 raw at maturity, only the outer rind being peeled off. It 

 contains no seeds or hardly any, and the soft rather dry 

 pulp has a mild sweetish acid flavour. The pear-shaped 

 lemons are particularly recommended for candying whole. 

 The variety commonly met with is the "table" pear- 

 shaped lemon (M..=piretta tat metda) so called on 

 account of its frequent use as a dessert fruit, but other 

 sorts are also grown here and there. 



14. The PERU or PONDEROSA LEMON. The tree 

 is middling in size, and fairly productive in alternate 

 years. The fruit is the largest of all lemons, often 

 measuring 15 c.m. across ; it is nearly spherical with a 

 broad and flattened navel, more or less smooth, but 

 sometimes rough and wrinkled, with a thick peel which 

 becomes clear yellow or straw-coloured at maturity ; the 

 seeds are numerous and very large. The blossoms are 

 as large as those of a shaddock. The juice is fairly 

 abundant, of good quality, and may be used like that 

 of the common lemon. The peel is candied like that of 

 the citron, and the fruit is sometimes made into marma- 

 lade. 



15. The SHADDOCK LEMON. This is a chance 

 seedling raised at San Antonio Gardens in 1904. The 

 tree is as large as a lemon-tree, but is distinctly more 

 vigorous. The foliage is large, but typically lemon-like. 

 The blossoms are as large as those of the Peru lemon. 



