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CHAPTER XIII. 



THE ORANGE AND LEMON TRADE OF INDIA. 



UNDER this heading will be of course included, not 

 only the trade in oranges and lemons, but also in limes, 

 citrons, and pummelos. 



It would appear that on the North Eastern border 

 of India, there are two or three places at which suntara 

 oranges are grown to some extent for exportation to 

 other places. Nagpore and its surrounding country, 

 in the Central Provinces, is another centre of consider- 

 able trade in oranges. Delhi is another. There does 

 not appear to be any more centres of orange cultivation, 

 except for local consumption, and for export to the 

 immediate surroundings of the place, where they may 

 be grown. Of course each station has its few orchards 

 of oranges, but these are a mere nothing, and their 

 produce is either locally consumed, or finds its way to 

 the railway stations in the vicinity ; so that a small 

 trade is carried on at almost all large railway stations 

 in the orange season. 



Mr. G. Stevenson, Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet, 

 has very courteously furnished me with the following 

 statistics of the trade in the Sylhet orange, called in 

 Bengal kamala lemboo, it is said from the name of 

 one of the rivers, in the vicinity of which this orange 

 is largely grown : 



