222 HISTORY OF FRUITS. 



a variety of the lime, which is now growing in that coun- 

 try, the yellow rind of which has no other perfume or 

 taste than that of burgamot : the juice is a weak acid, 

 and by no means equal to the common lime or lemon : the 

 fruit is nearly of a globular shape, and from ten to eleven 

 inches in circumference. 



The Citron is principally used as a sweetmeat. 



The SHADDOCK-TREE; Aurantium fructu maxima 

 India Orient alis. 



This fruit is also a species of the citrus, and takes its 

 name from Captain Shaddock, who first brought it from 

 the East-Indies, where it is a native. It is now cultivated 

 in the We.st-Indies, where the fruit often grows to the 

 size of twenty inches in circumference, and is known 

 to yield near half-a-pint of clear juice. It is described, in 

 the Hortus Jamaicensis, as being often larger than a 

 man's head. Shaddocks are preserved as a sweetmeat, 

 and used in making punch, as well as limes and lemons. 



