MISCELLANEOUS FRUITS 209 



notice is the rather complicated one origina- 

 ting in the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, Division of Pomology. This 

 form is engraved and printed, much reduced 

 in size, on page 210. The citrus fruits are 

 classified almost exactly as the nuts are 

 according to the several botanical species 

 from which they are sprung. Such common 

 names as orange, tangerine, citron, lemon, 

 lime, pomelo, kumquat are merely vernacular 

 substitutes for the Latin botanical names. 

 Some further classification seems to be de- 

 sirable, but it has not yet been given. 



The olive is grown to a considerable extent 

 in California. Varieties should be described 

 on special forms, following somewhat the 

 model of the blank used for plums. No classi- 

 fication of varieties has ever been suggested 

 at least, not in this country. 



Palms of two species bearing fruit occur 

 within the limits of North America. The 

 cocoanut palm is found in Southern Florida, 

 and the date palm grows and bears fruit in 

 Arizona and Southern California. At present 

 it seems hardly likely that the former will 

 ever be of any commercial importance in this 

 country; but the date palm gives reasonable 



