Fruits of Cuba. — 321 
tanists have given to the bitter orange in its several va- 
rieties. Is it the wild or bitter orange, the Naranja 
agria, of Cuba? You see it every where, when you 
are in the country. It is very commonly used as a 
hedge, for which it is admirably calculated. Its thorns 
are stout and sharp, its wood grows thick and strong, 
and when well planted and trimmed, it makes a garden 
fence, or a wayside wall, which is impassable to man 
and beast. Its deep green, glossy foliage, its fragrant 
blossoms, its golden fruit, add sweetness and beauty to 
this powerful hedge. Grainger says to the planter, 
** With limes, with lemons let thy fences glow, 
Grateful to sense ; cue children of —- clime ; 
And here and there let ora 
Their shapely beauties, and ! perfume the sky." 
But the planters in Cuba seem to prefer the wild orange 
to the lime or lemon, as a fence. ; 
You meet with single trees in the woods, where it 
may be regarded as a forest tree. The fruit is large 
and handsome, but intensely bitter, and uneatable. Its 
rind is made into a sweetmeat, and its pulp, as I was 
told, is often used to. clean boots with. 
Cirrus LiwETTA. The he: lima of the Spanish ; 
citron of the French. Wherever I have seen the lime, 
it has been growing as a bush rather than as a tree. In 
leaves, flowers, and wood, this species strongly resembles , 
the rest of the family. The fruit is preferred to the 
lemon in the composition of lemonade. 
Cirrus timonum. The lemon ; limon of the Benit; 
limon or citron of the French. Iti is unnecessary to de- 
