. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 340 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. October 26, FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES. THE LEMON INDUSTRY OP ITALY. The lemon tree grows in Italy, from Lombardy and Venetia as far south as Calabria and Sicily, but it is chiefly in the latter parts, as well as in the peninsula of Sorrento, that the lemon industry is developed, for it is here that the climatic conditions are most favourable to citrus plants. More particularly yet, Sicily is the great centre for the grow- ing of the fruit: out of a little more than 8 million lemon tre
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 340 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. October 26, FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES. THE LEMON INDUSTRY OP ITALY. The lemon tree grows in Italy, from Lombardy and Venetia as far south as Calabria and Sicily, but it is chiefly in the latter parts, as well as in the peninsula of Sorrento, that the lemon industry is developed, for it is here that the climatic conditions are most favourable to citrus plants. More particularly yet, Sicily is the great centre for the grow- ing of the fruit: out of a little more than 8 million lemon trees planted in the whole of Italy there are about 7 million in Sicily, representing a number of trees of the kind fifteen times greater than that existing in California. This information is supplied by the Journal d'Agri- culture Tropicaleiov August 1912, which goes on to say that a report summarized in the Journal de la Chamdre de Com- merce Franr:aise de Milan states that a lemon tree in Sicily, properly cared for, will give 800 to 1,200 fruits a year, and sometimes as many as 2,000. It is therefore not surprising that the crop of lemons in Sicily and Calabria had risen in 1907 to the figure of 6,900,000,000 lemons, equivalent to 20,000,000 boxes of 300 to 360 fruits; that is to say it would take up 64,000 fruit cars such as are used in California, each of which has a capacity of 312 boxes. In Sicily, the lemon orchards stretch from the coast to the fertile valleys of the interior and are found on the sides of the hills up to an altitude not exceeding about 1,450 feet. In this island and in the province of Reggio Calabria, the trees are planted in squares at distances of 12 to 18 feet; they are not given protection of any kind, because of the mildness of the climate, and under the conditions well developed trees are the general rule. At Sorrento, on the contrary, on the coast of Amalfi in the district situated further north, where the culture is undertaken, the trees are gener
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