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CALIFORNIA CITRUS CULTURE. 



The Lisbon. 



This beautiful fruit, from its elongated form, smooth peel, fine grain, 

 ample juice, few seed and great prolificness, is a deserved favorite with 

 lemon growers. It is a good keeper. The tree has, however, one decided 

 drawback, its strong thorns. It is also objected that it is rather too 



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FIG. 67. The Lisbon lemon. Natural size. (After Lelong.) 



shy of summer fruit. Its beauty, however, will always commend it. 

 The Lisbon is naturally a much larger and more thrifty tree than is the 

 Eureka, and in the orchard they are usually set further apart. It 

 grows very compact when but moderately pruned, yet produces a very 

 large proportion of its fruit on the inside twigs and branches, more so 

 than the Eureka. 



