THE GOLDEN ORANGE-TREE. 207 
To J. D. Browne belongs the honor of introducing 
this variety into the United States, he having brought 
several trees from Brazil in 1835, which were planted in 
Florida and are believed still to exist. 
The Chinese golden-fruited orange-tree is a much es- 
teemed variety, with ovate, oblong leaves, and smooth, 
round fruit. It is indigenous to France, Portugal, and 
Italy. 
Pear-shaped golden-fruited orange-tree. This is one 
of the most hardy trees of its kind, and is well worthy 
of cultivation. It produces a large, pear-shaped fruit, 
from which it derives its name. 
The blood-red-pulp golden-fruited orange-tree is distin- 
guished by the color of its fruit, which is reddish-yellow ; 
is of medium size, round and rough- skinned, and contains 
a pulp irregularly mottled with crimson. 
Sweet-skinned golden-fruited orange-tree. This is a 
much favored fruit-bearing variety. It produces fruit 
the pulp of which is of a deep-yellow color, sub-acid, 
soft and melting. 
Mandarin orange-tree. This tree is indigenous to 
China, and is cultivated for the superior quality of its 
fruit, which is of a deep orange color, sweet, soft-rinded, 
and possesses the peculiar characteristic of the pulp be- 
ing in a separated state from the rind, even allowing of 
the motion of the pulp within. 
Seedless golden-fruited orange-tree. Of all the varie- 
ties, this tree is considered the most productive. It bears 
a small, round, thin-rinded, seedless fruit with a deli- 
ciously sweet-flavored pulp. 
Bitter golden-fruited orange-tree. This tree is of 
stunted growth, spiny limbed, and subdivided into sev- 
eral varieties, among which are the horn-fruited, much 
esteemed for the delicious perfume of its flowers; the 
female Bigarade, having the peculiar characteristic of 
producing a two-folded fruit, or, “orange within orange ;” 
the curled-leaved Bigarade, of stunted growth, with 
