224 GARDEN PLANTS. PART II. 



We have both varieties, that with red pulp and that with pale 

 yellow, equally common here. But no such distinction exists 

 between them as Dr. Macfadyen has above indicated, either as 

 regards the form or merit of the fruits. The pear-shaped form, 

 which some fruits take, seems merely an accident of growth, both 

 that and the globose form being often found at the same time 

 upon the same trees of either variety. The fruit has also been 

 distinguished as 



1. POMPOLEONS or PUMELOS, when of the largest size. 



2. SHADDOCKS, those of intermediate size ; after the name of 

 Captain Shaddock, who first introduced them into Europe from 

 China. 



3. FORBIDDEN-FRUIT, when somewhat larger in size than the 

 largest Orange, with pulp of the colour of that of a Lemon, and 

 rather acid. This variety, often se3n in the fruiterers' shops 

 in England, I have never met with in India. They call this 

 however Pumelo, giving the name of Shaddock indiscriminately 

 to the two first kinds. 



AMOY-PUMELO is the name of a variety sent in the year 1851 

 from China by Mr. Fortune to the Agri-Horticultural Society, 

 and described by him as " the finest fruit of the kind in China." 



CANTON PUMELO is the name of another variety sent also 

 about the same time by Mr. Fortune. Neither of these two 

 varieties have hitherto (1862) fruited, but remain in an un- 

 thriving condition, as though the climate did not suit them. 



Except putting out the plant in the spot it is to occupy, no 

 trouble, I believe, is ordinarily taken with the cultivation of the 

 Pumelo, though the goodness perhaps of the fruit may depend 

 much more on the soil in which the tree is grown than on the 

 excellence supposed to belong to any particular variety. No 

 doubt the opening of the roots in January and afterwards covering 

 them with a rich soil would be as beneficial to this as it is to all 

 other fruit-trees. 



A dressing of salt to the roots of the trees I have been told 

 by a friend, who tried it upon several in his garden, has a sur- 

 prising effect in improving the quality of the fruit, rendering it 

 tender as an Orange, and all but bursting with juice. 



Plants are usually propagated by gootees, or by layers made 

 in pots supported on high among the branches by a bamboo 

 scaffolding. 



