Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . - grow inFlorida will testify. They are known tonorthern people as Grape-fruit, though webelieve the most common name among the i899] MEEHANS MONTHLY—GENERAL GARDENING. 47 growers is pomelo. The name Grape-fniit hasbeen a puzzle to even clopoedists, who tell usit is because the fruit tastes like that of writer could never detect such a resem-blance. It is more likely to have been sug- introduced this Asiatic plant to the WestIndies. There will be no difference of opinion,however, as to the beauty of our pic
Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . - grow inFlorida will testify. They are known tonorthern people as Grape-fruit, though webelieve the most common name among the i899] MEEHANS MONTHLY—GENERAL GARDENING. 47 growers is pomelo. The name Grape-fniit hasbeen a puzzle to even clopoedists, who tell usit is because the fruit tastes like that of writer could never detect such a resem-blance. It is more likely to have been sug- introduced this Asiatic plant to the WestIndies. There will be no difference of opinion,however, as to the beauty of our picture whichis taken from a photo kindly furnished byMessrs. Anderson and Price, Ormond GRAPE FRUIT. gested by the round fruit hanging in clusterslike grapes, so different from its sister species,the orange and lemon. In like manner, thefamily name Shaddock is in dispute, some saj^-ing it was some one named vShaddock who first The flavor of the fruit, is very different fromeither the orange or the lemon, and, is seldomagreeable to those who partake of it for thefirst time,—but, as in other instances, it be-comes enjo3able in time. BIOGRAPHY AND LITERATURE. A MARCH DAY IN ITALY. The skv was blue; without oue cloud of gloom,The sun of March was shining brightly, And to the air the freshening wind gave lightlyIts breathing of perfume. —Longfellow. NoMENCLATURK.—I am sorry to learn thatniv notes on i)age four of the January numbergave any trouble to the i>ublishing force of theMonthly. I used the names that are sanctioned by goodauthority and those that seem to be destined todesignate in future the plants referred to. Imight have included synonis but consideredtha
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