Uses and Commercial Products of the Citrus. 145 



market, cut up and mixed with bran it makes a capital 

 food for cattle." 



The object Mr. Piesse had in writing the book on 

 the " Art of Perfumery " was to induce the British 

 colonies to take up the manufacture of ottos of various 

 kinds. He then hoped that the extensive " Orangery " 

 near Sydney, belonging to Richard Hill, Esq., J.P., 

 might soon send its products from " our antipodean 

 colony." 



With regard to the lime, Mr. Piesse says : " It 

 grows most prolifically on Monserrat, one of the Lee- 

 ward Carribbee islands, and is now almost indigenous 

 there. A Monserrat Company has been formed, under 

 the management of Mr. J. Sturge. It annually pro- 

 duces no less than 1,000 pounds of the true otto of 

 Citron, all by the Ecuelle process, and it is so pure 

 that it is worth ' twice its present price in the market,' 

 but the products of Sicily compete with it to its dis- 

 advantage. Mr. Sturge says his citron* orchards con- 

 sist of 500 acres ; and that each acre contains about 

 200 trees. It takes seven years from the seed for 

 them to come into full bearing. They flower, more or 

 less, when they get rain, and the fruit ripens in about 

 four months after the flower appears. They bear fruit 

 all the year round,f but the chief harvest is from 

 September to January." 



Any further information regarding ottos and the 

 preparation of scents can be obtained from this 

 interesting work on the "Art of Perfumery." I 

 have only extracted from it what concerns the Citrus 

 family. 



It should not be forgotten that in addition to foreign 



* Probably lime is meant. Vide pi. 228, fig. a. 

 t For this reason, the kaghzi nimboo is called " bctra mdsi " by 

 natives of India. 



L 



