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(6) The egg-shaped or oblong orange, laring tauuali, forms ay 
lucrative production for the Maltese gardener : Frui 
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slightly sub-compressed, smooth, of a golden colour, with a thin rind 
adhering to the pulp, which is full of a sub-acid pleasant yellow juice. 
the tree is vigorous, long lived, sometimes very high, covered all over 
with lichens; the leaves are a green colour; it is the most 
abundant bearer. The fruit is sold from 2d. to 5d. the dozen, according 
peel ; it is sold from 2d. to 8d. per dozen. The first variety being a 
long keeper, is adapted for shipping to long distances. It is the opinion 
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dozen; (2) Fruit small, oblong, middle-sized, acid, called citrat, much 
eemed for the agreeable perfume which it exhales, Price, from 2d. 
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oblong, terminated by a nipple-like protuberance, rind thin, adhering to 
the pulp, which is very acid. Of the 25 varieties described by Risso, 
ihe aspermum, seedless, the vulgare, ordinary lemon, the racemosum, the 
tenue, and the oblongum, are extensively cultivated. "The sweet lemon 
ovate and 
without ; its juice, which exhales a pleasant me, is rred by 
some to that of common lemons. It is not extensively cultivated ; price 
ld. to 3d. the dozen. 
It is a pity that the Bergamot (Citrus Aurantium, var. Bergamia) is 
not largely grown in Malta; of the variety parva of Risso a specime 
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