98 CALIFORNIA CITRUS CULTURE. 
The Lisbon. 
This beautiful fruit, from its elongated form, smooth peel, fine grain, 
ample juice, few seed and great prolificness, is a deserved favorite with 
lemon growers. It is a good keeper. The tree has, however, one decided 
drawback, its strong thorns. It is also objected that it is rather too 
Fic. 67.—The Lisbon lemon. Natural size. (After Lelong.) 
shy of summer fruit. Its beauty, however, will always commend it. 
The Lisbon is naturally a much larger and more thrifty tree than is the 
Eureka, and in the orchard they are usually set further apart. It 
grows very compact when but moderately pruned, yet produces a very 
large proportion of its fruit on the inside twigs and branches, more so 
than the Eureka. 
