Archive image from page 53 of Culture of the citrus in. Culture of the citrus in California cultureofcitrusi00lelo Year: 1902 ( 50 STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. said to be over 600 years old; and another at Hampton Court, grown under glass, over 200 years old. Spain and Sicily also have trees of great age. At Versailles there is a seedling planted in 1421. At Nice there is a tree 50 feet high, with a trunk over 3 feet in diameter, which is said to produce 6,000 to 7,000 oranges in a year. The flowers are white, the leaves lanceolate or oblong. The petiole is not so markedly winged as in the bi
Archive image from page 53 of Culture of the citrus in. Culture of the citrus in California cultureofcitrusi00lelo Year: 1902 ( 50 STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. said to be over 600 years old; and another at Hampton Court, grown under glass, over 200 years old. Spain and Sicily also have trees of great age. At Versailles there is a seedling planted in 1421. At Nice there is a tree 50 feet high, with a trunk over 3 feet in diameter, which is said to produce 6,000 to 7,000 oranges in a year. The flowers are white, the leaves lanceolate or oblong. The petiole is not so markedly winged as in the bitter-sour orange, but is always present to a greater or less degree. The .fruit is generally an oblate sphere, pyriform or elliptical, of a gold- en color when ripe, and full of delicate pulp and sweet, refreshing juice. SEEDLINGS. — Pri- mary root stout, taper- ing, twisted, furnished after a time with a few lateral rootlets, longi- tudinally ridged and furrowed, at least when <lry. Hypocotjjl suliterra- nean, short, stout, curved, longitudinally ridged, colorless, nun. long. Cotyledons two, oppo- site or fretjuently alter- nate, colorless, fleshy, not leaving the testa, but very often com- pressed and shapeless, owing to the presence of two, thi-ee, or four embrvos in the seed. Seedlinss of Citi rantiuiii JM/cesyearliiig plants. Sttm woody, erect, terete (striate when dried and somewhat twisted), pale green, glabrous or minutely pubescent; first internode cm. long; sec- ond, and sometimes the third and fourth inideveloped, or the third 3 mm. and the fourth mm. long. Leaves simple, cauline, alternate, exstipulate, petiolate, evergreen, shin- ing, coriaceous, thickly dotted with immersed glands, strongly odoriferous when bruised, glabrous. Nos. 1 and 2. Generally op]>osite by the nondevelopment of the internode, more or less obliquely obcordate and appearing deformed ; very shortly petiolate. Nos. 3 and 4 (in sj)eciiuen examined). Alternate, ellijiti
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