The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . letters the Abbe Sestini relatesa local way of keeping Lemons in that) island bymeans of salt. The fruit is placed in barrelsand sea water poured over it every twenty-fourhours for forty days. Thus salted the fruits aresent abroad. In November and December inSicily and Calabria the essence or essential oilof Lemon is got from the rind whenstill green. The following is the procees :—A workman cuts three longitudinal slices offeach fruit, leaving a three-cornered central palm of the left hand and wrappe
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . letters the Abbe Sestini relatesa local way of keeping Lemons in that) island bymeans of salt. The fruit is placed in barrelsand sea water poured over it every twenty-fourhours for forty days. Thus salted the fruits aresent abroad. In November and December inSicily and Calabria the essence or essential oilof Lemon is got from the rind whenstill green. The following is the procees :—A workman cuts three longitudinal slices offeach fruit, leaving a three-cornered central palm of the left hand and wrapped round theforefinger. The oil thus gathered in the spongeis squeezed into earthern vessels furnished witha 6pout and subsequently decanted. Four hun-dred Lemons yield nine to fourteen ounces ofessence. The prisms of pulp are afterwards THE CHRISTMAS Garden-, as usual at Ghristmastide,presents a scene of extraordinary animation, andin some directions the presence of the extra pro-duce exposed for sale causes as much congestionin the market itself as do the heavv railway and. Fig. 155.—lemon industry : cleansing the rinds before extracting the acid. pressed to obtain Lemon juice, and then dis-tilled to obtain the small quantity of volatileoil they contain. Formerly Lemons were held in great esteem asmedicinals and as antidotes against were said to cure many ailments;now—though it is still used in medicine as an other wagons in the adjacent streets. The fol-lowing notec. show what obtainable in Christmas There are plentifuleluding good samples from Spair. .and considerable consignments of the populaseedless variety from California. Mandarin adjacent streets. The fol- li wonderful variety is now as fruits. supplies of Oranges, in- from Spain and Jamaica, Km umber 20, 1913.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 447 Oranges are of good quality, some of the samplesbeing especially fine. Of the tropical fruits, noneexceeds in importance the Banana, which is ob-taina
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