166 Oranges and Lemons of India. 



have found oranges of this type in many parts of 

 India and Ceylon, there does not appear to be any- 

 where any special trade in this kind of orange. As I 

 have written fully of these in another chapter, I need 

 only enumerate their varieties here, viz., the peni- 

 dbdan of Ceylon ; thebandir or chinee, and " Spanish" 

 oranges of Tanjore ; the Mussembi of Poona ; the 

 Malta and paenbagh oranges of Lucknow ; the Suez, 

 and blood-oranges of Jaunpore ; and the famous 

 blood-orange of Gujranwala. All these are of the 

 Malta or Portugal sweet orange type. 



Although India has so many fine varieties of citrus, 

 and so manydifferent climates and soils to grow them in, 

 the reader would perhaps hardly believe that Bombay 

 imports oranges and lemons from Africa and Arabia. 



Mr. Moore, the Acting Commissioner of Customs, 

 Bombay, has very courteously favoured me with the 

 following statistics regarding the imports of oranges 

 and sweet lemons from Zanzibar and Muscat. The 

 figures for 1885-86 are from ist April to 22nd March, 

 1886. 



Although the Seville orange is to be found in many 

 places, both in India and Ceylon, there is no demand 

 for it. It makes the best marmalade. Who knows 

 how many tons of tinned marmalade are imported 

 annually from England ? 



The Mandarin orange is only suited to moist 

 climates, where hot winds do not prevail, such as 

 Bengal, the Western Coast and Ghats, Ceylon and 



