. Culture of the citrus in California. California. Pomology; Citrus. 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
. Culture of the citrus in California. California. Pomology; Citrus. 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 Seedlinss of Citi rantiuiii JM/ces^yearliiig 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, ellijitic, ol)tuse, obso-. Please note that these images are extracte
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