THE LEMON, LIME AND CITEON. 



M-ards of eight months. Instead of rot- 

 ting, they dried down to veritable lemon 

 anummies, and the dessicated pulp still 

 ;eft a -sharp acid taste on the tongue. 

 This experiment demonstrated to my 

 satisfaction the keeping qualities of the 

 lemon. 



hundred Bonnie Brae. Mr. Higgins ob- 

 tained his stock from the seeds of rotten 

 lemons, all the best foreign varieties, hav- 

 ing been saved and shipped to him by a 

 fruit dealer in San Francises. The Sicily 

 lemons (we use the term in contradistinc- 

 tion to Bonnie Brae) are generally large, 



GROUP OF BONNIE BRAK I/KM ON S. 



In answer to an inquiry from me as to 

 t .hi> origin of the Bonnie Brae, Mr. Ilig- 

 irins wrote, under date of August 1-lth, 

 1884, as follows: 



" I saved the seed of the Sicily lemon, 

 and from thai seed I obtained all varieties, 

 from the commonest citron up to this fine 

 lemon, which we named after the place, 

 * Bonnie Rrae.' You cannot tell the tre 

 by its looks from any other lemon tree 

 in the grove. It is not a lime in any sense 

 <.f the word." 



In tin- San Diogo Union of March, 1882, 

 I find quite a full description of Mr. 

 Higgins's farm, in which the following 

 occurs: 



"The lemon trees number about four 

 hundred three hundred Sicily and one 



thin skinned and juicy, and of a line flavor. 

 But the Bonnie Brae is superfine. There 

 is as much difference beween it and the 

 ordinary lemon as there is between a com- 

 mon bronco and a thoroughbred horse. 

 Mr. Iliggins ran give no account of this 

 superior variety beyond the fact that the 

 fruit first appeared on a solitary tree in his 

 orchard. This lemon is more oblong than 

 the ordinary variety, has a smoother, thin- 

 ner skin, is seedless, has a larger percent- 

 age of juice and a richer flavor. This re- 

 markable lemon is called Bonnie Brae by 

 M r. 1 1 iggins, after the name of his orchard 

 homo. Such a fine specimen of the citrus 

 family has never been produced in any of 

 the semi-tropic orchards of the world. It 

 is an original product of San Diego conn- 



