44 CITRUS FRUITS AND THEIR CULTURE. 



Commercially this fruit is known as grapefruit, and 

 in market quotations reference is nearly always made to 

 it under this name. This appellation was given because 

 the fruit is so frequently borne in grape-like clusters of 

 from three or four to a dozen and a half. A glance at 

 plate No. IX, which represents a cluster of twelve, of 

 which eleven are visible, proves that the name is not alto- 

 gether inapplicable. Not only is the fruit known in the 

 market as grapefruit, but it is the name generally applied 

 throughout the citrus districts of the United States, and 

 many people know it by none other. Whether the term 

 grapefruit will ever be superseded in common use by the 

 correct horticultural name pomelo is extremely doubt- 

 ful. 



When and where this cognomen was first used it would 

 be difficult to say, but John Lunan, in his Hortus Jamai- 

 censis, Vol. 2, page 171, 1814, speaking of the shaddock, 

 says, "There is a variety known by the name of grapefruit 

 on account of its resemblance in flavor to the grape." The 

 Chevalier de Tussac, in his flora Antillarum (Vol. Ill, 

 page 74, 1824, calls attention to the fruit in these words: 

 "J'ai eu occasion d'observer a la Jamaique, dans le 

 jardin botanique d'East, une espece de chadec dont les 

 fruits, qui n'excedent pas en grosseur une belle orange sont 

 disposes en grappes; les Anglaise de la Jamaique donnent 

 a ce fruit le non de forbidden fruit, fruit defendu, ou 

 smaller shaddoc, petit chadec." 



From this we must conclude that the name grapefruit 

 originated in the West Indies, for I have not found the 

 name in any other of the older works, except where the 

 authors mentioned above are referred to or quoted. 



The pomelo is sometimes referred to as the shaddock, 

 variously spelled "shaddock," "chaddock" and "chadec." 



