Lemon. 
3°3 
ordered that the next day one of them should eat citron, and 
the other not. He who had not tasted the citron died presently 
after he was bitten; the other remained unhurt. 
The blossoms of the lemon are deemed typical of loves 
fidelity. 
In Tennyson’s “ Recollections of the Arabian Nights ” is the 
following picture of an enchanted and enchanting lemon-grove: 
“Far off, and where the lemon-grove 
In closest coverture upsprung, 
The living airs of middle night 
Died round the bulbul as he sung; 
Not he, but something which possess’d 
The darkness of the world, delight, 
Life, anguish, death, immortal love, 
Ceasing not, mingled, unrepress’d, 
Apart from place, withholding time, 
-But flattering the golden prime 
Of good Haroun Alraschid.” 
