Appendix. 351 



of such a size as to have been easily grasped by the five 

 fingers, such as those shown in pi. 151, b, and 167, c. 



Then, in another place, a string of people are carrying 

 presents to the king. Two are carrying a fruit like a pine- 

 apple, as if something rare. The pine-apple, being an 

 American plant, could not have been known in Assyria in 

 those days. My supposition is that these two men are each 

 carrying a fingered citron to the king as something rare and 

 wonderful. The Phoenicians traded largely with India and 

 China, and there would have been little difficulty in intro- 

 ducing the citron into Assyria at a very early date.* 



No. 64. 



The following is taken from the Gardeners' Chronicle si 

 8th October, 1887, p. 432. 



Fruit Cultivation in San Francisco. 



The British Vice-Consul says : " About 2,300 car-loads 

 (23,000 tons) of oranges will be marketed from this district 

 this season. The Orange Growers' Union so regulates ship- 

 ments to the cities of the Eastern States, that an over-supply 

 is not sent to any point. Los Angeles is the chief district of 

 the orange industry. 



" The cottony cushion scale, commonly called the white 

 scale, is doing great damage to the orange groves. Many of 

 the orchards have been cut down, and many others, now 

 badly infected, will have to be treated in the same way. 

 Nothing has as yet been discovered that will kill the pest 

 without injuring the tree, and sufficiently inexpensive to 

 admit of common use. Spraying the trees has been found 

 ineffectual, owing to the fact that the liquid used did not 

 reach every part of the tree. It is now stated that the 

 owner of the oldest orchard in the district is about to patent 



* For a further development of this idea, see an article of mine on the 

 " Cone fruit of the Assyrian Monuments," in the Babylonian and 

 Oriental Record for May, 1888, and subsequent numbers. 



