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Lime. Citrus Limetta, Risso. (RutacE/E). 



lemons. 



I Scientific Farmer 1S79, p. 7S. 

 sEaillon, Hist, of Plants, i. 441. 



3 Treatise on the Citrus Family. Florida Ag. Trans, pp. 16, 23, 



4 Carey, Lecture on Orange and Lemon Culture, p. 14. 



5 Travels, it. 14T. 



GGallesio, Treatise on the Citrus Family, p. 24. 



quality. In Japan there are recognized some fifty varieties, thir- 

 teen of which Henry Loomis' pronounces as constituting the 

 leading sort. Of these the Yemon has some specimens seedless, 

 especially when the trees are young. The quality seems to be 

 excellent, superior to many, but not equal to the Gosho, 41 



Laurel Cherry. Prunus laukocerasus, L. (Rosace/E). 



Bauhin in his Pinax, 1623, speaks of the Cerasiis folio laur'mo 

 as commonly having a stone fruit, but that atTrebizond there is a 

 stoneless form. This species, a native of Trebizond, is said by 

 Bailloii" to have been introduced to Europe in 1576, and is abun- H 



dantly cultivated in England and France. Its leaves are used 

 for aromatic flavoring in cookery. 



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Lemon. Citrus medica, var. Limonum, L. (Rutace^). 



The common lemon, says Gallesio^ contains many seeds. It ' 



produces hybrids and varieties that have {^\^ seeds, and some- 

 times no seeds, and it is always in those deviating most from the A^* 

 types that we remark this sterility. The double flowered lemon tl 

 is a tree whose flowers have many petals, but are not entirely ^j 

 sterile* It has no seeds. In California, Carey's Eureka variety 1 1 

 bears fruit nearly seedless, the rind thin and sweet, the pulp very 

 juicy^ In South Africa, Thunberg? writes that he met with a 

 lemon which contained another within it, furnished with a red 

 rind, and that neither of these two lemons had any seed. 





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The Hme of Naples, the fruit the smallest of European lemons, '^ 



has a smooth, thin, odorous rind. Its pulp is abundant, its juice 

 acid and agreeable because of its delicacy and aroma. It has no 

 seeds, and as Gallesio*^ states, is one of the most highly esteemed 



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