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THE KUMQUAT AS A MARKET FRUIT / 
Kumquats, which have appeared in our markets to a limited extent during the past few years, have met 
ready sale at enormously high prices; they brought from $10 to $15 per box last season. At present the 
supply is entirely inadequate to the demand, and there is every reason to believe the demand will increase 
more rapidly than the supply. It is a fruit everybody likes upon first acquaintance. Not only is it the most 
dainty of dessert fruits, but also has the more substantial merit of being highly prized by housewives for 
cookery and preserving. A number have recently planted Kumquat groves, and the investment can scarcely 
fail to prove remunerative. 
/ Nagami. Fruit small, about an inch and a half some and of peculiar growth ; the branches are rather 
long by an inch in diameter, of a deep orange-yellow slender and willowy, without thorns ; leaf small, 
’ color ; the delicate peel is sweet and spicy, and the , narrow, oval or almost lanceolate, with blunted apex 
p pulp tender and agreeably acid. Tree very hand- I and petiole without wings. Very productive. 
Stocks. 
Our Kumquats are all grown on trifoliata stocks. 
Other Citrus Fruits. 
The genus Citrus embraces many hundreds of species and varieties, of which comparatively few are yet 
grown in this country. The kinds more or less well known here, of less commercial importance than the 
Orange and Lemon, have been very appropriately styled the “Minor Citrus." The extensive production of 
the Pomelo (or Grape Fruit) for market merits for it a place with the more important Citrus fruits ; the closely 
related Shaddock, however, which bears the largest fruit of all the Citrus, is one of the most interesting of 
the Minor sorts. (Although the fruit of the Pomelo is smaller and more refined than the Shaddock, it is 
much like the latter in both tree and fruit; it is by some classed as of the same species, and by others as a 
sub-species.) While the Kumquat (referred to at length above) will probably never rank with the Orange, 
Lemon and Pomelo in commercial importance, it is one of the most valuable of the Minor Citrus, both for 
its fruit and as an ornamental. The foliage and habit of the Citron are striking and quite different from other 
species; the flowers are exquisitely scented ; the fruit, in addition to its value for preserving, possesses a very 
grateful and persistent odor, excelling in this particular all its race; a single specimen will fill a room with 
fragrance for weeks. The acid of the Lime is by many esteemed more highly than that of the Lemon. A 
few Shaddock, Citron and Lime trees should have a p 
Stocks .—The varieties enumerated below we 
offer on trifoliata stocks only. 
Citron. (The more recently imported varieties of 
this fruit have not proved true. We offer the well- 
known kind commonly called the “ Lemon Citron.") 
Very large; shaped like the lemon; skin irregular 
and glossy; inner skin thick, spongy and aromatic. 
Valuable for preserving. The candied Citron of the 
shops is made from this fruit. 
Lime. (Tahiti variety.) A strong grower and* 
a very early and heavy bearer. Fruit larger than 
the Florida or Mexican Lime ordinarily cultivated. 
Possesses a strong, rich acid. Nearly thornless, or 
becomes so with age. 
Myrtle-leaved Orange. A handsome ornamen¬ 
tal species. (See Ornamental Department.) 
Otaheite Orange. A small-growing ornamental 
sort, much esteemed for house culture. (See Orna¬ 
mental Department.) 
Shaddock. The largest of citrus fruits; speci¬ 
mens sometimes weigh as much as 15 pounds. We 
offer the “Blood" or “Pink" variety. Very large ; 
skin smooth and glossy ; rind thick, white, spongy 
and bitter ; pulp blood-red, watery and subacid. 
Trifoliata. See full account of this species, page 31. 
