Cultivation of the Orange and Lemon. 1 2 1 



bair (Zizyphus sp.). It is well-known that this 

 delicate orange and its varieties get scorched on the 

 sunny side by the direct sun-rays. The scorched 

 fruit is almost worthless, while that shaded by the 

 tree and its leaves is perfect. 



However, in Delhi the fact is that this orange is 

 jumbled up under all sorts of forest trees, which either 

 were there before the orchards were planted, or ger- 

 minated afterwards, and were allowed to remain 

 there. 



The long road between Delhi and Kurnaol, to a 

 great extent, is lined on both sides by extensive fruit 

 gardens, and wherever the suntara orange tree is 

 planted, forest or other trees must suck up both 

 manure and moisture, so that this unfortunate and 

 delicate orange bush is everywhere either starved or 

 otherwise damaged. 



All cultivators say that this orange tree likes a 

 kunkur (or stony) soil, and there appears plenty of 

 stone in and around Delhi, which in many places 

 crops above the surface. Mr. Lionel Jacob, Execu- 

 tive Engineer, Western Jumna Ganal, informs me that 

 the Delhi stone is a quartzite. 



Orange growers in Delhi are unanimous in stating 

 that well water is better for the suntara orange than 

 canal water. They say that the fruit is sweeter in the 

 former case than in the latter ; and that the tree 

 perishes earlier when irrigated by canal water than by 

 well water. The latter, however, is an expensive 

 mode of irrigation. In a large garden, three or four 

 wells are required to be worked constantly, more or 

 less, for two-thirds of the year. This entails several 

 sets of men, and several pairs of bullocks, while canal 

 irrigation is much cheaper. Mr. Lionel Jacob informs 

 me that in Delhi " the canal water-rate for gardens is 



