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CCCCLXXX.—CITRUS FRUITS IN SICILY. 
The orange industry in Florida was of the aniwa value of nearly a 
million sterling. As already described in the Kew Bulletin, 1895, 
pp. 125 and 166, this important industry, feel Sa supported by Britis h 
capital and energy, has practically ceased t ist. This circumstance 
has given rise to a possible reviva of. enge uU we in Jamaiea and 
the Bahamas, which formerly supplied a good deal of the oranges 
consumed in the United States. 
The chief seat of the orange industry in the Mediterranean is at 
Palermo in Sicily. In reply to many inquiries addressed to him on the 
subject, Mr. H. Lewis Dupuis, Her Majesty’s Consul at Palermo, has 
prepared za may be regardéd as an exhaustive mont of the orange 
and lemon industry. This i published in a Foreign Office Report 
(Annual Series, 1895, No. 1544). From this ais the followiiftz 
extracts are reproduce 
CoMMERCE IN ORANGES AND Lemons (Green Fruit.) 
So-called from their being gathered when yet green, in order 
stand the voyage. ranges and lemons grow abundantly in s 
vinces of Palermo, Messina, Catania, and Syracuse; Messina is 
cially noted for lemons. The best oranges are those grown in the 
They are on as ordinary, blood, and sweet or vanilla, and 
mandarins. Lemons present no variety although they have designations 
knowu to the fade, Shipments mostly go to the States, In the last 
3 years the numbers of boxes exported to the States alone were as 
follows :— 
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New d.d: New è 
=- | Yoik: Boston. | Philadelphia. Ovens. Baltimore. 
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Boxes. Boxes. Box | Boxes. Boxes. 
Oranges - - | 326,020 | 168,759 48, 689 21,796 10,532 
Lemons - - | 100,423 235,186 11 7,353 252,722 576,752 
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1893-94. 
New | T (s New | . 
—— | Tod Boston. | Philadelphia.) Orleans. Baltimore. 
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| Boxes. | Boxes. Boxes. Boxes. Boxes. 
Oranges - -| 245,217 116,029 46 255 10,062 12,318 
Lemons - - | 798,016 149,601 92,309 "E 900 19,818 
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Norr.—This would represent the value of 74,8007. 
"The wood for the construction of these boxes is imported from Trieste, 
Fists, and Bangor, United States of America, and made up here into 
