BOTANY. 133 



Orange {Citrm aurantiurri). Cultivated in gardens. 



Common Citron (C. tuber osa). Cultivated in gardens. 



Seville, or Wild Orange, [AwavAwm, acre, of Miller.) 

 Grows wild. 



Sour Lemon, or Lime, (C. acm). Grows wild. 



Common Lemon, (C limon). Grows wild. 



A few years ago, atout 1854, the orange and lemon trees 

 in the Bermudas were attacked by a minute insect, a species 

 of Goceus, which caused sad havoc in the orchards. In a 

 recent letter from a friend resident upon the islands, he gives 

 the following particulars : " A few of the young lemon trees 

 have escaped the disease, and some of the orange trees have 

 also heen saved hy the simple means of cutting the tree down 

 within two feet of the ground, and washing the stem with soft 

 soap and water. I observed this remedy, and performed the 

 work myseK, with four orange trees, and they are now shooting 

 up finely ; and we have reason to think that the destruc- 

 tive disease is fading away; but the cause or origin is 

 perfectly unknown to us, except that it consists in a mass 

 of the minutest insects, all of which appear to form a 

 glutinous substance when the hand is rubbed over it. The 

 island of Antigua, which, in former years, produced the 

 best description of oranges, was visited by this blight, and 

 when I was there, twenty-eight years ago, not an orange 

 tree was to be seen. La these islands of Bermuda, the 

 visitation seems to have passed or skipped over one or two 

 parishes in its progress from east to west, which is some- 

 what a mystery." 



Orange and lemon walking sticks are in great requisition 

 among the officers stationed on the Islands, and fine speci- 

 mens are eagerly sought after, to carry home as presents to 

 friends. 



