42 [ THE BITTER, SOUR OR SEVILLE ORANGE 



2. The MELAROSA BERGAMOT. (M.=me/arosn). 

 The tree is middling or small and is fairly productive. 

 The foliage is small, elongated, and often crimpled as 

 that of an egg-orange. The fruit is small more or less 

 flattened with an -uneven peel, and a large and flattened 

 navel. The peel changes from greenish yellow, to yellow 

 and then to chrome yellow at maturity. The pulp is 

 greenish and very bitter. The fruit, or its peel, has the 

 strongest and most persistent fragrance of all Citrus fruits, 

 that of the ripe fruit being more delicate arid pleasant. 



THE BITTER, SOUR OR SEVILLE ORANGE. 

 (Citrus Bigaradia, Loisel.) 



The BITTER ORANGE often attains a large size, and 

 lives to a great age. It is resistant to drought and to 

 gumming, and thrives well in all situations, but is 

 dwarfed if exposed too much to the N.W. & W. 

 winds. The tree is productive and is usually very thorny. 

 The blossoms are pure white, fairly large and very 

 fragrant, and are preferred to all other Citrus blossoms 

 for the extraction of essence of orange-blossoms or oil 

 of Neroli, and for the distillation of orange-flower water. 

 The leaves are more or less distinctly winged, the fruits 

 are round or spheroidal, with a rough peel which is bitter 

 and very aromatic. The pulp is bitter and slightly acid. 

 All bitter oranges can be kept long on the tree after 

 maturity. The following bitter oranges are grown in our 

 gardens 



i. The COMMON BITTER ORANGE. (M = taring 

 kares or zupperit}. This is the typical wild or half- wild 

 bitter orange grown directly from seed, and makes the 

 best stock on which all Citrus trees, including other 

 varieties of the bitter orange, are budded or grafted. 

 The fruit is used for the manufacture of marmalade, 

 and the peel, properly cut and dried, is used in the 



