46 CITRUS FRUITS AND THEIR CULTURE. 



ered horticulturally, is entirely distinct from the pomelo, 

 but, botanical ly considered, the two cannot be separated; 

 they belong to one species. The term shaddock is more 

 properly applied to the large and coarse grained varieties. 

 There are some other points of distinction between the two 

 which may be incidentally mentioned here, although the 

 distinctions are fully covered in the section on shaddocks. 

 The fruit of the shaddock is much larger, often weighing 

 fifteen pounds or more, the tree is smaller, the leaves on 

 full grown trees are somewhat larger. 



From the foregoing discussion of the common names 

 it will be seen that pomelo is the name given the prefer- 

 ence, grapefruit is synonymous, while shaddock is relegated 

 to a fruit botanically the same as the pomelo but horti- 

 culturally distinct. 



HORTICULTURAL. STATUS OF THE POMELO. 



No fruit of importance now grown in the United 

 States has such a meagre American literature as the pom- 

 elo. Nor is this strange when we remember the fact that 

 it is only within the last fifteen years or so that the pom- 

 elo has been regarded as a commercial fruit. After having 

 been neglected for years, while the whole attention of 

 growers of citrus fruits was directed to the orange and 

 all their energies put forth in bringing that fruit to perfec- 

 tion, it has only in very recent years taken its present posi- 

 tion, to which the critical taste of fruit consumers has 

 raised it. 



The pomelo was brought to Florida together with 

 other members of the genus citrus by the Spaniards, who, 

 under the leadership of Ponce de Leon, first landed upon 

 the east coast of Florida in the year 1513. From that time 

 until 1821 they disputed the possession of the State with 



