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spread along the hills facing India from Khasia to Bhotan, 

 Nepal, and Gurhwal, was only a matter of time. 



No. 3. 



The following is taken from the " Penny Cyclopaedia " 

 (1840), under the heading of Orange : 



" Since then, Dr. Royle has stated (' Illus. of Himalayan 

 Botany,' p. 130) that he has found two plants, having the 

 characters of the lemon and the citron, growing wild in the 

 jungly valleys at the foot of the Himalayas, in the tract 

 between the Ganges and Jumna rivers, which, when trans- 

 ferred to gardens, retained their characters. He further 

 states that from the Rungpore forests a round kind of lime 

 is obtained,* while in those of Sylhet, as well as on the 

 sides of the Nilgiris, the orangef is described as being found 



wild In England the orange and citron have been 



cultivated since 1492 ; and Mr. Loudon states that at the 

 Wilderness, Kent, there are three trees in boxes (about 

 1840), not surpassed by any trees so grown in Europe ; and 

 that at Saltcombe, in Devonshire, there are in a few gardens 

 orange trees which have withstood the winter in the open air 

 for upwards of 100 years J (see the work of Risso of Nice, and 

 Poiteau of Versailles, ' Histoire Naturelle des Grangers ' ; 

 also Gallesio's * Traite du genus Citrus,' and Mr. Loudon's 

 ' Encyclopaedia of Gardening ')." 



* Can this be the jambiri proper, which is a round sour citrus ? 

 More likely it is the Rungfiore lime of Saharunpore. 



f The Sylhet orange meant is probably the suntara of these days ; 

 but the Nilgiri orange may possibly mean the Seville both having been 

 probably introduced. 



% Not improbably the Seville orange is here meant, as it stands a 

 greater degree of cold than other kinds, and hence probably its Italian 

 name, " arancio forte." 



