. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . -treethirty-one feet high, which is said to be six hundredyears old; and at Nice, in 1789, there was a treewhich generally bore five or six thousand oranges,which was more than fifty feet high, with a trunkwhich required two men to embrace itf. The sizedepends much upon the age of the plant. There are four distinct species :—The Lemon, orCitron, the Orange, the Mandarin Orange, and theShaddock; and of the orange and lemon there aremany varieties. They are, even in the East, wherethey are natives, n
. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . -treethirty-one feet high, which is said to be six hundredyears old; and at Nice, in 1789, there was a treewhich generally bore five or six thousand oranges,which was more than fifty feet high, with a trunkwhich required two men to embrace itf. The sizedepends much upon the age of the plant. There are four distinct species :—The Lemon, orCitron, the Orange, the Mandarin Orange, and theShaddock; and of the orange and lemon there aremany varieties. They are, even in the East, wherethey are natives, not a little capricious in theirgrowth; the fruit, and even the leaves, frequentlyaltering, so that it is not always easy to say which isa distinct species, and which only a variety. Theycontinue flowering during nearly all the summer, andthe fruit takes two years to come to maturity; so that,for a considerable period of each year, a healthy treehas every stage of the production, from the flower-bud to the ripe fruit, in perfection at the same time. * Laborde. f Risso. THE ORANGE GENUS. 331. The Citron. The Citron, when £rrownig wild, is a thorny tree,about eight feet high, with leaves of a pale green:the flowers are white, and have a very agreeableodour. The fruit is oblong, five or six inches long,with a rough yellow rind; the outer part of it con-tains (as is the case with most of the family) a con-siderable quantity of highly aromatic and inflam-mable oil; the pulp is white and edible, but very acid,and preferred when prepared as a sweetmeat. Of aparticular variety of the citron a conserve is madewhich is in great demand by the Jews, who use itin their Feast of Tabernacles. With a little artificialheat in winter, the citron comes to as much perfectionin England as in Spain or Italy. There are twovarieties noticed—the common and the sweet, butwhether they have been produced by natural difibrenceor culture is not known. The Lemon grows naturally in that part of Indiawhich
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