Orange and Lemon Trade of India. 161 



Maunds. 



By goods trains 4,326 



By passenger trains 22,512 



Total 26,838 



Delhi and its surroundings is, as I said, another 

 centre of some orange trade, but it appears to import 

 more than it exports. The sintra or rungtra orange 

 of Delhi is sufficiently well known. It is a baggy, 

 loose-skinned orange, usually without much pretension 

 to symmetry of form. Mr. George Smith, the Deputy- 

 Commissioner of Delhi, has kindly favoured me with 

 the following statistics regarding the orange trade of 

 that district. The memorandum was drawn up by the 

 Tehsildar of Delhi. 



" The rungtra orange of Delhi is exported to 

 Meerut, Jeypore, Bombay, and to some other minor 

 places. About 200 maunds are exported per annum, 

 valued at 1,600 rupees, or eight rupees per maund. 



" Then from Ulwar, Nagpur, Gurgaon, and villages 

 across the river Jumna, about 2,000 maunds are im- 

 ported into Delhi, valued at about 24,000 rupees, or 

 12 rupees per maund." 



The latter figures appeared doubtful. I referred 

 them again to Mr. Smith, who said they were correct, 

 the imports being made at a later period, when oranges 

 fetched a higher price. 



I have seen the orange gardens of Delhi. The 

 whole system of orange cultivation there is faulty and 

 slovenly.* With its fine variety of suntara, its good 

 soil, canal irrigation, and railway communications, 

 Delhi ought to export more than Nagpore. While 

 the latter exported over 26,000 maunds, the former 

 only exported 200 maunds, and imported 2,000 maunds. 



* See Chapter XI. on " The Cultivation of the Orange Delhi 

 Gardens." 



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