APPENDIX. 165 



Bey's garden at Alexandria: ' Here I was shown 

 an extraordinary fruit tree, produced by an 

 extremely ingenious process. They take three 

 seeds, the citron, the orange, and the lemon, and 

 carefully removing the external coating from one of 

 them, and from one side of the two others, place 

 the fowner between the latter, and binding the 

 three together with fine grass, plant them in the 

 earth. From this mixed seed springs a tree, the fruit 

 of which exhibits three distinct species included 

 in one rind, the division being perfectly visible 

 externally, and the flavor of each compartment as 

 different as if it had grown on a separate tree. 

 This curious method of producing a tripartite 

 fruit has been introduced by Boghos Joussouff 

 from Smyrna, his native city, where it is said to 

 have been practiced from time immemorial.' 



"In confirmation of the above, the Rev. G. G. 

 Renouard reported, while Foreign Secretary to the 

 Royal Geographical Society, having seen the fruit 

 of an orange and lemon combined, which had 

 grown on a tree similarly produced. Mr. R. 

 described the fruit as having the size and appear- 

 ance of a large orange, with two or three patches of 

 lemon stuck on it; the color; almost to the very 

 edge of the different pieces, being distinctly that 

 of the respective fruits; and on removing the rind, 

 which, as in a common orange, was all of one 



