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“Tt is EH to separate "e cem of citrons imported by the 
Jews for their Feast from e for ordinary consumption, but the 
whole amount an oito ie ewe at the Trieste market appears to have 
been about 5,000 tons in 1893, almost all of which were again exported 
to England, Germany, and the East of Europe for r various purposes. 
None are exported to America. Quotations have been asked from 
Chicago, but no business resulted. 
“The anathema denunciated against Ionian Islands citrons by the 
Rabbis of Poland and Russia has, however, it is stated, been, or is abont 
to be, withdrawn." 
A trade in citrons, both for preserving as well as for Jewish cere- 
monies, exists also at Mogador, in Morocco. Ina report by Mr. bores 
Payton for the year 3 [Foreign Office, Commercial, No. 4 (1884), 
pp. 511-512}, aee particulars are given of the locality whence 
the ** holy "' citrons are obtain ied. ‘This appears to be the province of 
Soos, on or near ud bara of the Great Soos River. Mr. Payton's 
account is as follo 
“ Citrons, aide ^ of which go to Great Britain, amounted to 325/., 
or 67}. more than in the previous year. Of the above amount about 
half may represent the value of the ordinary citron of commerce—a very 
large and thick-rinded fruit, which, generally sent home in brine, is 
ultimately converted into * candied peel. But the due ugue portion of 
the sum represents the relatively much higher value of a very curious, 
apparently rare, and highly-es samec fruit which, though "sold here at 
so high a rate as an average of about 32s. per 100, or nearly 4d. for 
each fruit, appears never to be ens n. 
“ This ma ay be spoken d as the sacred or holy citron of the Jews, which 
is carried to their m ues ed d the Feast of the Tabernacles, it 
having an bi matical Ni ifica So highly prized is this fruit by 
the faithful observers of Tsraclitish tradition, that specimens without 
blemish sometimes feteh as much as 4s. each here, while in England, I 
am"informed on good authority, they are sold at certain synagogues for 
the extraordinary price of 17. 1s. to 2¢. 2s. each. Their use is supposed 
to be derived from injunctions contained in the 28rd chapter of the 
Book of Leviticus: * And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs 
a rome ay frat) of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and 
* willows of th 
“ But the Jewish version of UA same passage reads : * And you shall 
* take to yourselves on the first day the fruit of the tree Hadar, palm- - 
* leaves, boughs sd an tree Aboth, and willows of the brook.’ These 
special fruits, , Xe. escribed in a Jewish book, entitled, 
‘The Festivals oft i" Lord,’ as ‘fruit of the tree Madar, or “ citron” 
* (Hebrew, troon) ; the * capoth temarim ” or palm-leaves, ‘poughs of the 
tree aboth, or “ myrtle,” and brook willows.’ 
“ The *troon or ‘Tabernacle citron,’ as it is sometimes called, is 
fruit rather larger than a lemon, pale, yellowish-green in colour (being 
always plucked before it is fully ripe), and said to contain only one pip, 
and to be of a very pure nature, and to keep sound for a very lon 
period. Those whieh are despatehed henee are carefully packed in 
cotton-wool or other soft material as the price which they will realise 
for their holy use is entirely dependent on the greater or less freedom 
from blemish which the priests can certify concerning each specimen, 
