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Account of a remarkable Lemon Tree. 



Should you consider this worthy of a place in your excellent 

 an interesting work, the Gardener's Magazine, it is at your 

 disposal, and it will give me great pleasure to have contributed 

 in the least way possible to such a useful and desirable work. 



I am, Sir, &c. 



Richd. Saunders. 



The fruit sent us, of one of which we took a sketch, {fig. 

 11.), weighed 14 oz. each, and measured 1 If inches round, and 

 6 inches long; the length of the leaves was from 9 to 10^ 



inches, and their breadth from 4 to 5 inches. Had there only 

 been a few fruit on the tree, this size, large as it is, would not 

 have appeared so extraordinary; but when it is considered 

 that there were eight dozen all remarkably large, besides 

 an immense quantity of green fruit, and all this upon a 

 tree of only six years' growth, the whole may be considered 

 as well worthy of record. We have often thought that the 

 orange tribe might be more cultivated than they are as a 

 table fruit. A house 6 feet broad, 1 5 feet high, and 30 feet 

 long, the trees planted in the soil against the back wall, would 

 supply, we should think, a plate of oranges and a plate of 

 shaddocks every day in the year. These fruits are always 

 in season, generally liked, and, what is not the least object 

 in putting a dessert on the table, produce a splendid effect to 

 the eve. — Cond. 



