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dessert and confectioner y purposes. The juice of the fruit is similar to 
that of the lemon or lime. The essence - citron prepared from the 
rind when really genuine is a very agreea e perfume. A singular but 
very interesting use of the fruit of the ind has lately come into 
prominence. 
In a Diplomatic and Consular Report issued by the Foreign Office 
[Annual Series, No. 1353, 1894], on the trade of Trieste, Mr. Consul 
te 
erystallising while the other is used solely in the religious. ceremonies 
f 
The total import into aes in 1893 was about 5,000 tons. Mr, 
Haggard’s account is as follo 
“ The ick trade through Trieste is of great interest, and of some 
importan There are two kinds of fruit imported, each intended for 
very different purposes 
* One is the ance fruit ben for preserving and erystallising, gre 
on grafted trees, ga d from November to January, the other, 
called the * Citron for the Law, is the natural, unripe, and non-edible 
fruit gathered from ungrafted trees from June to August 15. The 
latter is solely used in the religious ceremonies of the Jews at the time 
of the Feast of Tabernacles, and from a commercial point of view it has 
been perhaps at times the most valuable branch of the citron trade 
through Trieste 
“Tt is an ae of car antiquity. For centuries past it has 
been the cus stom for Jew merchants from Poland, Russia, and 
Eastern Europe generally 5 colleet at Trieste about the month = 
August in each year to await the arrival of the citrons. Until co 
paratively Y this port has been the sole centre for the distribution 
of the ‘Citr or the Law.’ Political reasons and Jewish disabilities 
elsewhere jeobebly originally eaused it to be especially chosen for the 
market, but above all the dread of pirates in the Levant prevented 
the Jews from travelling further south to purchase at the places of 
production 
“ To give some account of the origin of the trade one must first refer 
to the Hos: in Leviticus xxiii., v. 40, where are specified some of the 
ceremonies to be observed on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, 
In the English — Version the siener appears to be 
incorrect, and no me of any ‘fruit’ to be at the Feast is 
made either i in Lovin or nie parallel passage in Nehemiah viii., v. 19. 
This, however, is corrected in the Revised Ver ie as far as Leviticus is 
concerned, where the words ‘fruit of goodly trees’ appear, without 
eris e however, what kind of fruit “hould pe employed. 
Version as commonly used is equally inexplicit, but singularly 
medi in the Italian Version *the fruit of citron trees' is 
tioned as a special kind to be used at the Feast. I am not aware from 
