1 60 Oranges and Lemons of India. 



seeing these wild trees, and forming an opinion, as to 

 their origin, i.e., whether they were really indigenous, 

 or were the descendants of trees brought from else- 

 where. In any case, the oranges, though not so 

 large as the cultivated variety, had the same charac- 

 teristics as the Nagpur orange, and were very sweet. 



"When at Chindwara in 1876, I imported (with 

 vines, olive grafts, figs, and mulberries) some varieties 

 of oranges from Naples. One or two of the plants I 

 took with me to Jabulpur in 1877, an d left them 

 there in 1878. The others remained at Chindwara. 

 Whether any of these trees have survived the changes 

 of district officers that have since taken place, and 

 established themselves in these districts, I know not." 

 The Nagpore orange is locally called suntara by 

 natives. 



Mr. J. B. Fuller, has courteously furnished me with 



the following statistics of the orange trade of Nagpur. 



" Within the last twelve years many new orchards 



have been planted in Nagpur, Kamptee, and other 



parts of the district ; and orange cultivation is now 



spreading rapidly in other districts of the province. 



" There is a great demand for the Nagpore orange in 



Bombay, and considerable quantities of the fruit are 



annually exported to this and other places. In the 



year 1885, 22,609 niaunds of orange fruit were 



exported from the Nagpur station, out of which 



21,400 maunds were exported to Bombay alone." 



This paper was drawn up by the Superintendant 



of the Government garden of Nagpore. 



In addition, Mr. H. J. P. Thomson, secretary to the 

 Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company, has been 

 good enough to furnish me with the following particu- 

 lars of the traffic in oranges from Nagpur, during 

 1885: 



