342 NEW AMERICAN ORCHARDIST. 



common Orange, the Lemon, the Citron, the Lime, and 

 the Shaddock. In many countries they rise to the height 

 of fifty feet; but in more temperate latitudes the common 

 character belonging to them, is that of low evergreen 

 trees, with oval, lanceolate, or ovate, entire or serrated 

 leaves. Those raised from seeds have often axillary spines ; 

 the flowers are in peduncles. The fruits are round or ob- 

 long, and of a yellow color. The petiole of the orange 

 and shaddock is winged, but naked in the lime, lernon, 

 and citron. These three last are considered of one spe- 

 cies. The orange and shaddock are oblate or spherical, 

 and of a red or orange color ; the lime is of a pale color, 

 and spherical ; the lemon oblong, with a rough skin and a 

 protuberance at the end ; the citron is very rough, oblong, 

 with a very thick skin. 



All the species of citrus, according to the authority of 

 Loudon, endure the open air at Nice, Genoa, and Naples. 

 At Mola, in Italy, and at the water's edge in view of the 

 Bay of Gayetta, and on the supposed ruins of one of Cice- 

 ro's villas, is a garden of 700 orange and lemon trees. It 

 comprehends about two acres, and yields a rent of about 

 600 scudi, or about $555 per annum. But at Florence 

 and Milan, and often at Rome, they require protection. 

 The orange has been long cultivated in Florida, particular- 

 ly at St. Augustine. The orange groves are said to be 

 extremely productive and profitable. 



The orange has been much cultivated in Louisiana, and 

 will succeed well in all the maritime districts and sea 

 islands of Florida, of Mississippi, and Alabama. 



"In the south of Devonshire," according to Loudon and 

 Phillips, " and particularly at Saltcombe, one of the warm- 

 est spots in England, may oe seen, in a few gardens, orange 

 trees that have withstood the winter in the open air up- 

 wards of a hundred years, the fruit as large and as fine 

 as any from Portugal. Trees raised from the seed and 

 inoculated on the spot, are found to bear the cold better 

 than trees that are imported." 



VARIETIES. 



The two principal varieties of the Orange are 1st, the 

 SWEET ORANGE ; 2d, the BITTER ORANGE, or Bigaradier 

 of the French. 



