. Culture of the citrus in California. Citrus fruits; Fruit-culture. 50 STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. The flowers are white, the leaves lanceolate or oblong. The petiole is not so markedly winged as in the bitter-soui* orange, but is always present to a greater or less degree. The fruit is generally an oblate sphere, pyriforni or elliptical, of a golden color when ripe, and full of delicate pulp and sweet, refreshing juice. SEEDLINGS.—Primary root stout, tapering, twisted, furnished after a time with a few lateral rootlets, longitudinally ridged and furrowed, at least when dry. Hypocottjl subte
. Culture of the citrus in California. Citrus fruits; Fruit-culture. 50 STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. The flowers are white, the leaves lanceolate or oblong. The petiole is not so markedly winged as in the bitter-soui* orange, but is always present to a greater or less degree. The fruit is generally an oblate sphere, pyriforni or elliptical, of a golden color when ripe, and full of delicate pulp and sweet, refreshing juice. SEEDLINGS.—Primary root stout, tapering, twisted, furnished after a time with a few lateral rootlets, longitudinally ridged and furrowed, at least when dry. Hypocottjl subter- ranean, short, stout, curved, longitudi- nally ridged, color- less, mm. long. Cotyledons two, opposite or fre- quently alternate, colorless, fleshy, not leaving the testa,but very often com- pressed and shape- less, owing to the presence of two, three, or four em- bryos in the seed. Stem woody, erect, terete (striate when dried and somewhat twisted), pale green, glabrous or minute- ly pubescent; first internode cm. long; second, and sometimes the third and fourth undes^el- oped, or the third 3 mm. and the fourth mm. long. Leaves simple, cauline, alternate, exstipulate, petio- late, evergreen, shining, coriaceous, thickly dotted with immersed glands, strongly odoriferous when bruised, glabrous. Nos. 1 and 2. Generally opposite by the nondevelopment of the internode, more or less obliquely obcordate and appearing deformed very shortly petiolate. Nos. 3 and 4 (in specimen examined). Alternate, elliptic, obtuse, obso- letely serrate, minutely emarginate, with alternate, ascending, lateral nerves; petioles channeled above, narrowly winged, articulated with the stem below and the leaf above. Ultimate leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, emarginate, minutely and obso- letely serrate, pellucidly punctate, with a thin marginal line of larger glands; lamina articulated with the winged petiole, which is ovate in outline, with a. Seedlings of Citrus aurantium dulces—year
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