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of PI. Industry, pp. 1-20 ; plates i-vi. — Cultivation of Oranges in 

 Dominica, Hesketh Bell, Pamphlet No. 37, 1905, pp. 1-52 ; issued 

 by the Commissioner, Imp. Dept. of Agric. W. Indies (Dulau & Co., 

 London) ; Abstract in Journ. Soc. Arts, liii. 1905, pp. 901-904. — 

 " Orange Trees," in Journ. Jamaica Agric. Soc. October, 1906, 

 pp. 390-394.— Citrus Fruit Growing in the Gulf States, Rolfs, 

 Farmers' Bull. No. 238, 1906, pp. 1-48, illustrated (Govt. Printing 

 Office, Washington, D.C., 1906).— " Orange Cultivation in the 

 Central Provinces," R. S. Joshi, Rai Bahadur in Agric. Journ. 

 India, January, 1907, pp. 64^69. pis. viii. and ix. — Citrus Fruits 

 and their Culture, Hume, pp. 1-587 ; illustrated (Orange Judd 

 Co., New York, 1907). — " A Treatise on Citrus Culture from Seed 

 to Fruit " ; shewing the Influence of the Stock, Masters, in The 

 Agric. Journ. Cape of Good Hope, xxx. 1907, pp. 155-172 ; 

 pp. 307-325 ; pp. 437-453 ; pp. 605-630 ; and pp. 751-763, illus- 

 trated. — The Decay of Oranges while in transit from California, 

 Powell, in Bull. No. 123, 1908, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bureau PI. Ind. 

 pp. 1-79, with 9 plates shewing orange groves ; packing house ; 

 brushing, sizing and washing machines, &c. ; 26 figures in the 

 text. — " The Citrus Fruit Industry of California," in Journ. Soc. 

 Arts, lvi. 1908, pp. 798-799.—" Essential Oils " from citrus fruits, 

 sweet oranges, Seville oranges, limes and lemons, with particulars 

 of orange rinders (15s. to 20s. each), in Journ. Jamaica Agric. Soc. 

 December, 1908, pp. 410-412. — "Gum Disease of Citrus Trees in 

 California," Smith & Butler, in Bull. No. 200, 1908, Agric. Exp. 

 St. Univ. of California, pp. 236-270, illustrated (Supdt. State 

 Printing, Sacramento, 1908). 



Citrus decumana, Murr. Syst. ed. xiii. (1774) p. 508. 



A small tree, 20 feet high and upwards, branches spreading, 

 spiny, sometimes spineless ; young shoots pubescent ; leaves, ovate, 

 obtuse, or emarginate, pubescent on the under side, petiole broadly 

 winged ; flowers white ; fruit large, sometimes several pounds in 

 weight, globose or pyriform, pals yellow, rind thick, pulp pale, 

 pink or red, sweet or acid, vesicles easily separated. 



III. — Rumpf, Amb. ii. t. 24 ; Duhamel, Traite des Arbres, vii. 

 tt. 38, 42 ; Tuss. Ant, iii. tt. 17, 18 ; Nooten, Fl. Java, t. 3 ; Risso 

 and Poiteau, Orangers, tt. 61-66 ; Nicholson, Diet. Gard. f. 461 ; 

 Bonavia, Cult. Oranges and Lemons, India, tt. 59-92 ; Garden and 

 Forest, April 22nd, 1896, p. 163, ff. 23 and 24 (Fruit of Pumelow 

 or Shaddock), f. 25 (Grape Fruit, as sold in New York), f. 26 

 (Forbidden Fruit, as sold in New York) ; Hume, Pomelos, 

 tt. 1-7 ; Freeman and Chandler, World's Comm. Prod. p. 277. 



Shaddock (Western Tropics) ; Pumelo (Eastern Tropics) ; Pam- 

 pelmouse (French) ; Giant Citrus ; Forbidden Fruit ; Grape Fruit 

 (from the fruit growing in clusters like grapes). 



Tropical Asia, Malayan and Polynesian Islands ; commonly 

 cultivated in India, West Indies, Tropical America, &c. 



The Shaddock fruited in the Botanic Garden at Old Calabar 

 in 1899, the tree being then about 5 years old. Several plants 

 of " Grape Fruit " were received at Old Calabar in April, 1897, 

 from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Young plants of this 



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