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INQUIRY RESPECTING A DEFECT IN GRAPES. 
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 
THE SWEET LEMON. 
To the Editor of the Horticultural Register. 
Sir,—I make no doubt the sweet lemon of which you have made 
some mention at page 192, vol. iv., is a distinct species, instead of 
having been produced by grafting the sour lemon on the orange. The 
first time I ever heard of, or met with this fruit, was some years since 
at the village of Ximenain the province of Andalusia, where I observed 
a boy about five years old, eating a common sized lemon, and at the 
same time, the acidity which I concluded it possessed, not having more 
effect on his countenance than if he had been partaking of a thoroughly 
ripe orange; this circumstance attracted my attention, and while 
gazing at the child, a resident of the place approached me, to whom I 
communicated the cause of my surprise, when he informed me, that 
the lemon I noticed was perfectly sweet, and that the fruit was by no 
means uncommon in that part of the country. 
There is an oak, a native of Western Barbary, that produces acorns 
which, for sweetness and flavour, so nearly resemble the almond, 
that had this variety been known to the informant from the Azores, he 
would in all probability have also gravely announced for the information 
of the credulous, that these qualities were occasioned by grafting the 
oak on the sweet almond. Hijo de Espana. 
May 1 1th, 1835. 
Cehnopodium Quinoa. —This plant is cultivated in the warmer 
parts of North America, and extensively in Chile and Peru, its leaves 
being eaten as spinach or sorrel, and its seeds as rice. It is also used 
in the preparation of a kind of beer. Dombey, on his return from 
Peru, endeavoured to introduce the plant as a culinary vegetable into 
France, but without success. From a dried specimen of the plant 
grown in England last year, and exhibited at a meeting of the Lin mean 
Society, by A. B. Lambert, Esq. V.P.L.S., it appeared, in habit, very 
like the strong growing British chenopodiums , but we should think the 
seeds are far too small to be ever equal in value to any of our cereals; 
and certainly inferior to the white beet as a substitute for spinach. 
Inquiry respecting a defect in Grapes.—F. Ashford would 
be thankful if a paper would be inserted in the Register concerning 
the cause, prevention, and cure of certain berries in bunches of grapes 
