Introduction. xix 



Punjab can grow a blood orange, equal to, if not 

 superior to, that of Malta. That Delhi can grow in 

 the shade of trees, one of the finest oranges to be 

 found in India; that Almora possesses a citron from 

 which a candied peel can be made superior to that of 

 Leghorn ; that the Malta, Portugal or Sicilian lemon, 

 identical with that of the English shops, can be grown 

 all over India, from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, 

 and Ceylon, and that sliced and boiled in a certain 

 way, it is a very efficient remedy for intermittent fever 

 and enlarged spleen, the two real and always present 

 plagues of the rural population of Hindostan. 



Many of these important points were not known 

 before, beyond the immediate neighbourhood where 

 the different kinds were grown. This work gives in 

 detail, not only the history of the citrus in India, as far 

 as it can be made out, and its mode of cultivation in 

 different places, but also outline drawings of every 

 variety of orange, lemon, citron, lime, pummelo, &c., 

 to be found in India, with the places at which they can 

 be procured. 



