2 70 Appendix. 



No. 25. 



In the " Sydney Visitors' Guide," p. 5 1, 1 find that at Parra- 

 matta, on Mr. Pye's estate, is an extensive orange grove. 

 The guide book says : " Here may be seen growing every 

 variety of the orange and lemon and other members of the 

 citron family, from the tiny kumquat to the gigantic shad- 

 dock. Indeed, the orange plantations of Parramatta may be 

 said to be quite phenomenal, not alone in their extent, but 

 in their marvellous productiveness and the uniformly good 

 quality of their fruit. To those who have not seen the orange 

 growing in a congenial home, or who may but have seen it 

 under the rude culture of some of the growers of the Euro- 

 pean continent, a visit to the celebrated estate of Mr. Pye 

 of Rock Hall is not likely to be soon forgotten." 



Mr. J. H. Thornhill, C. E. Canal Department, India, who 

 has recently taken a trip to Australia, tells me, " I drove for 

 about three hours in a sort of circuit from Parramatta, and 

 outside the town was never out of sight of orange-trees. 

 They said you might double the distance with the same 

 result, and that the cultivation of the orange is largely 

 increasing." 



No. 26. 



Regarding large oranges, the Tropical Agriculturist of 

 ist June, 1883, p. 962, has the following taken from the 

 Trinidad Chronicle of 2ist February, 1883. An orange-tree 

 produced fruit of an extraordinary size, more like a shaddock. 

 For several years it gave several crops of big fruit. In 

 1882-3 one was of great size and weighed 20 ounces, with 

 a girth of 13 inches.* They have a thick skin " little inclined 

 to turn yellow." The pulp is " sweet as of other oranges " 

 in Trinidad. Other oranges of the same tree are said to 

 have been even bigger than the above. The owner had a 

 hope of obtaining a race of monster oranges. 



* The "bandir" orange of Tanjore is 12 inches in girth. 



