KUMQUATS PACKED FOR SHIPMENT 
KUMQUAT 
This unique and curious member of the Citrus family, commonly called Kumquat in this 
country, is a native of Japan, where it is known as Kin-kan, which means Gold Orange; 
Kumquat is Chinese for the same meaning. In Japan it is exclusively grown upon Trifoliata 
stock. On this stock, in open-ground culture, it is a large bush or small tree, sometimes attain¬ 
ing a height of 12 feet. It bears in great profusion a small and very handsome deep yellow 
fruit. The whole fruit, rind and all, is eaten, and people become very fond of them. The 
sweet rind and agreeably acid pulp make a piquant combination, relished by most palates. 
Preserved in sugar or crystallized, the Kumquat makes a delicious confection, and wherever 
it is known is deservedly very popular. 
As AN ORNAMENTAL. — The trees bear as soon as they have wood enough to hold fruit. 
Diminutive trees in pots are loaded with flowers and fruit every year. The small but exqui¬ 
sitely beautiful fruit hangs on the unique and handsome evergreen trees all winter. While in 
ordinary open-ground culture the trees grow large enough to yield several boxes of fruit, they 
are easily restricted to dwarf size. These little trees, with compact head, beautiful foliage and 
abundant flowers and fruit, are very popular for room decoration. As a window plant at the 
North, for pot culture, as well as for gardens and grounds in the orange region, the Kumquat 
is one of our handsomest and most valuable ornamentals. 
The Kumquat as A Market Fruit. — Kumquats, which have appeared in our mar¬ 
kets to a limited extent during the past few years, have met ready sale at enormously high 
prices, bringing from $10 to $15 per box. At present the supply is entirely inadequate to the 
increasing demand. 
VARIETIES.—There are two varieties, Nagami and Marumi. The Nagarni is about 1 Yz 
inches long by an inch in diameter, deep orange-yellow ; the delicate peel is sweet, spicy ; 
pulp tender, agreeably acid. Tree handsome ; branches slender, without thorns; leaf small, 
narrow, oval, almost lanceolate; very productive. The Marumi differs but little except in size 
and shape of fruit — it is round, about an inch in diameter. 
IN Our Nurseries we have both of these varieties fruiting heavily, and deem them so 
valuable that we have alternate rows marked “Don’t dig.” In other words, we deem it more 
profitable to retain sufficient of these to transform the nursery into an orchard than to sell 
them out clean. 
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