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from Metford's lemon in its smaller fruits (13} inches in girth), 
the roughness and wartiness of the rind, the “ bronzy reddish- 
k 
is only four years old. 1 
As some experts who have seen the plant at Kew have called it 
a pumelo, and others a large orange, it may be worth while to 
state what are, according to Sir Joseph Hooker, the distinguishing 
f the three species into which the sel members 
edi 
purple; flowers more or less pink. C. Aurantium (comprising 
sweet, bitter, or Seville and Bermagotte oranges), young shoots 
glabrous, greenish-white ; flowers pure whi C 1 
(represented by the shaddock, pumelo, grape-fruit, forbi 
fruit), young shoots pubescent ; flowers white. y. W. 
Indian Rice or Water Oats (Zizania aquatica).—T wo years ago 
a few small living plants of this ornamental annual grass we 
them some large clumps have been made, and during the past 
growih was produced in the new Water Lily Pond. (south of the 
river end of the Lake); here plants attained a height of nearly 
quite dry, and this must explain the failure to germinate them in 
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this co 
should be sent either in water or mud. 
