Appendix. 257 



orange-tree which Mr. Wallace measured was 30 feet high, 

 the stem being 7 feet in circumference at the base ;* but 

 many larger trees, destroyed by the coccus, had been cut 

 down. The produce of the trees is almost incredible ; props 

 are always used to prevent the weight of the fruit from break- 

 ing down the branches. An orange-tree in the quinta, or 

 orange-garden, of the Barao das Laranjeiras produced twenty 

 large boxes of oranges, each box containing upwards of 1,000 

 fruit in all 20,000 oranges from one tree.-)- Two hundred 

 shiploads of oranges are annually exported from St. Michael's 

 being nearly 200,000 boxes." 



R. THOMPSON. 



All the foregoing extracts are taken from the before- 

 mentioned " Treasury of Botany." 



No. 5. 



Dr. John Shortt, writing from Yercaud, Shevaray Hills, 

 dated 26 October, 1885, says : "We have only one kind of 

 citron here which attains to a good size, about a foot or more 

 long, and weighs from 3 to 5 Ibs. The common warted 

 citron and the fingered citron, as it is termed, are met with at 

 Bangalore, and I have seen the fruits exhibited at the Madras 

 Horticultural Show. We have the lemon, which attains to 

 the size of about a goose's egg, and the lime about that of a 

 hen's egg, but quite round and not oval or oblong. There 

 are two other sorts in which the fruit is as large as the cocoa- 

 nut without its husk. The one is quite round, and the other 

 of the size of a large orange, and pointed at the summit 

 (with a mammilla). We have not the sweet lime. I intro- 

 duced a plant of the latter, but not having fruited yet I 

 cannot say what it is. 



" Of oranges we have the Seville, a bitter orange ; the 



* Presumably a tree of the Portugal variety. 



t To over-crop a willing tree is almost as bad as to over-drive a 

 willing horse, vide Appendix, No. 32, on the disease of the Orange trees 

 in the Azores in 1836 ; also Appendix, No. 41, Rumphius's chap. 42, on 

 the Aur. sinense (" simtara " Orange). 



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