152 Oranges and Lemons of India. 



response to our request for practical information, a 

 vine grower, and wine maker, who has within the last 

 few years visited many of the European continental 

 vineyards, called upon us. He informs us, and wishes 

 the fact to be made widely known, that a most 

 excellent wine can be made from the juice of the 

 orange, and that since the troubles caused by the 

 phylloxera, a large proportion of the " sherry " of 

 commerce, is "orange wine." The article adds, that 

 in Florida, wine is being made from oranges. 



Sugar forms a considerable part of the sweet orange 

 juice. In addition, some varieties contain also vary- 

 ing proportions of mucilage and citric acid. There 

 is no reason why wine of some sort should not be 

 made from orange juice. There are very few parts of 

 the world, where the cold is not too great, in which 

 some variety of sweet orange could not be grown. 

 Cultivation, and other methods would increase the 

 amount of sugar. Who can say that the Bootwal 

 sweet orange would not make a good palatable wine ? 



Upon the whole, many of the citrus fruit, especially 

 the sour ones, are so useful and important in many 

 ways, that villagers should be everywhere encouraged 

 to grow them in their back yards, and anywhere, out 

 of the reach of goats and cattle, near the villages. 

 The daily drainage of water from their wells, bathing, 

 and washing of pots and pans, if led by a channel to 

 the lemon trees, would suffice as a daily watering in 

 summer, so that once sown or planted, no further 

 care would be necessary. The kaghzi nimboo, the 

 Malta lemon, or bukhdr ki nimboo (as it is now some- 

 times called) and the kkatta orange, are all so easily 

 grown from seed and layers, that these useful remedies 

 ought to be readily brought to the door of every 

 villager in India, to be utilized on his first getting 



