. The Cuba review. 20 THE CUBA REVIEW. POMELOS OR GRAPE-FRUIT. A Staple Commercial Fruit — Quality of Cuban Grape-Fruit all That Can be Desired—Cultivation in Cuba Earlier Than in Florida—Valuable Kinds Fully Described—Cultivation and Care. BY H. HAROLD HUME. The pomelo is known by a number of different names and there is in conse- quence some confusion concerning the exact fruit which any one writer may have in mind. In most of the English colonies and by English writers it is called shaddock. Horticulturists in the United States to-day generally make a decided distinction between the shaddoc
. The Cuba review. 20 THE CUBA REVIEW. POMELOS OR GRAPE-FRUIT. A Staple Commercial Fruit — Quality of Cuban Grape-Fruit all That Can be Desired—Cultivation in Cuba Earlier Than in Florida—Valuable Kinds Fully Described—Cultivation and Care. BY H. HAROLD HUME. The pomelo is known by a number of different names and there is in conse- quence some confusion concerning the exact fruit which any one writer may have in mind. In most of the English colonies and by English writers it is called shaddock. Horticulturists in the United States to-day generally make a decided distinction between the shaddock and the pomelo. The shaddock is a much larger fruit, coarse and poor in quality, larger in size, often weighing ten to fifteen pounds, larger in leaf, smaller in tree and worth- less as a coniimercial fruit. On the other hand, the pomelo is a staple commercial fruit, excellent in quality, tonic and refreshing. In all American markets it goes by the name grape-fruit, a name first applied to it in the West Indies, and quite descriptive of the fruit, as it is frequently borne in large bunches like grapes. In the writer's opinion that is not a desirable characteristic. Fruit borne in clusters is always stained and soiled where the fruits touch, and if scale insects are present on the trees, even in small numbers, the places where the fruits touch each other in the bunches is a favorite breeding place for them. Pomelos are not native anywhere on the American continent. They had their origin in the Malayan Islands, and from there were introduced into India. In fact, there is evidence to show that it was brought to Calcutta from Java some- thing less than three hundred years ago. From India it was carried to the Barbados Islands by an English sea captain, Captain Shaddock. From this sea captain the fruit took the name shaddock. Subsequently it was introduced into others of the West Indian Islands, Florida and the countries of South and Central America by the early Spanish tr
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