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flavour. The tree is productive even when quite young, 

 and makes a good pot plant. The fruit is eaten entire, 

 with its peel, this last being very sweet and tender, and 

 therefore makes a good adjunct or corrective to the acid 

 pulp. Two varieties have been introduced recently, and 

 are met with in the gardens of amateurs. The Marumi 

 Kumquat produces round fruits, has smaller leaves and 

 a compact habit of growth which makes it more 

 desirable for cultivation in pots. The Nagami Kumquat 

 has rather larger leaves, with a less compact habit, and 

 produces egg-shaped fruits. Both varieties are equally 

 productive, and the fruit has the same peculiar flavour. 

 The Kumquats do not thrive well when budded on 

 Bitter Orange stock, and in Japan and China they are 

 usually budded on Citrus trifoliata. As this stock is not 

 used by our gardeners, and is not obtainable from local 

 nurserymen, the kumquat is propagated by cuttings or 

 by budding on seedling lemons, on which they seem to 

 do well. 



THE SHADDOCK AND THE POMELO. 



(Citrus decumana, Murr., and C. decumana hybrida 



or pomelana). 



The Shaddock, also called Grape-fruit or Holland 

 Orange, (N[.=Xaddock, laring tar-rius, taring ta Olan- 

 da], is more ornamental than useful. The tree is 

 middling in size, with a rather straggling habit of growth. 

 The leaves are large, winged, fleshy and leathery, and 

 more or less curled or wavy. The blossoms are very 

 large, of a dirty creamy white colour. The fruit is very 

 large, round or oval, with a yellow peel, which is very 

 tough and even, but slightly chagrined owing to the 

 protruding glands. The pulp is dry and firm, creamy 

 yellow, often streaked with orange and crimson ; the 

 rags 0r membranes are tough and leathery. The seeds 

 are very large and numerous, and the flavour of the 



