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8. The CLUSTER BITTER ORANGE. The fruit is small, 

 usually borne in large clusters. 



9. GRENADE BITTER ORANGE. The fruit has a well 

 marked depressed navel, and contains many small 

 segments, often not larger than those of the pomegranate, 



10. The VOLKAMERIO BITTER ORANGE The leaves 

 are small, and the fruit has a navel like that of the lemon. 



11. The CURLED-LEAVED BlTTER ORANGE, the 



leaves of which are broad and curiously curled. The tree 

 is almost t hornless, and the Iruit sometimes is oval. 



12. The "BIZZARRIA" ORANGE. (^l.laringBiz- 

 zarria or laring ghageb] . The fruit may be shaped like a 

 lemon, round or elliptical, with peel coloured yellow or 

 orange, with an orange-coloured pulp which may be acid 

 like that of the lemon, or bitter like that of the common 

 Seville Orange, or may be both acid and bitter; or the 

 fruit may be exactly like a Seville Orange in all details, 

 and this varied .production is noted not only on the same 

 tree, proceeding from the same bud or graft, but also on 

 the same branch, and sometimes in the same cluster. 



13. The SWEET SEVILLE ORANGE. The fruit is only 

 slightly bitterish and is quite eatable. It is often more or 

 less egg-shaped. The peel has a milder flavour than that 

 of the bitter orange. 



THE COMMON ORANGE. 



{Citrus Aurantium, Lin.) 



The ORANGE is largely grown for the sake of its 

 delicious fruit. In April and May the fragrance of its 

 pure white blossoms, wafted on the breeze, reminds the 

 visitor who passes through the roads of the villages, that 

 beyond the high unsightly stone-walls which obstruct the 

 view, there are numerous orange-groves in all the pride 

 of spring. The following forms of table oranges are 

 grown in our gardens. 



