The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-07-09

pogynous disk, white within, and shaded
without by violet red; the stamens,
thirty or forty in number, have the same
insertion as the corolla; the flaments
are brought together in cylindrical form,
crowded at the base and polyadelphous;
the anther is yellow, linear, and divided
i1rthe middle by hollow the pistil is
composed of simple ovary, ovoid, sur
mounted by a single, fieshy style, and
simple globular stigma, the pistil COW
cred with viscous substance like honey.
The fruit is capsular and multilocular.
1t is formed Of two skins, of which the
outside one is rough, yellowish, thin,
sown with an infinite number of globu-
lar vesicles appearing like little points,
and full of very aromatic oil the inte-
rior skin is thick, white, tender, heshy,
and forms the most considerable part of
the fruit. Under this interior skin is
membrane which envelops the pulpy
part, and which, penetrating the interior,
forms double partitions converging to an
nine or ten sections. These sections
a pulpy flesh formed from a quantity OF
oblong vesicles, full of acid juice, and
containing cartilaginous seeds in indeter-
inmate number.
TIE LEMON TREE.
The lemon is a tree, but it's plant
branches show preference for an espa-
lier.
Its leaves are ovoid, large, dentate, of
Il clear green, tending to yellow. They
are borne on a petiole, articulated at the
point of its union with the disc of the
leaf, and guarded by two projections on
the sides. It's shoots while tender are of
a purplish tint. Its flowers are larger
than those of the orange, and a little
smaller than those of the citron tree,
and partly hermaphrodite and partly
diCecious. The corolla has five petals,
colored red without and white within,
set upon a green five-cleft calyX, in the
midst of which in the hermaphrodite
flowers rises pistil smaller than in the
citron, surmounted by stigma covered
also with a viscous humor and surroun-
ded by from thirty to forty stamens uni
ted inte Several , Hodisa les, and ssra,, :
is implied or pointed, at the summit.
The exterior skin is thin and of very
pale, clear, yellow tint. The interior
skin is thin also, white and tough. The
first is formed of quantity of little ves-
icles containing very penetrating aro-
ma, which vanishes in great degree
when the fruit reaches excessive matu-
rity. The pulp is enclosed in nine or
eleven sections, which form the most
considerable part of the fruit, and are
composed of an infinite number of oblong
vesicles of a light yellow, containing a
sharply acid juice, abundant and very
agreeable. The parenchyma or pellicle
which covers these sections is so adhe-
rent to the skin or peel that it cannot be
separated without being torn. 1t is thin,
transparent and without bitterness.
4 q TIfE. ORANGE TREE.
The orange is more vigorous than the
citron and lemon trees. 1t forms a full
and majestic tree. Its leaves are oblong,
pointed, slightly dentate and winged in
the petiole, and of very deep green,
which distinguishes them at once even
to the sight from those of the lemon and
citron trees.
3 The constantly hermaphrodite flower
has five petals, and is distinguished from
those of the citron and lemon by its
whiteness and the grateful odor eman-
ating from it. The stamens, twenty in
humber, are divided into several bodies
and bear an oblong anther, whose pollen
10 VI d uCCp yOnOW.
The fruit Of the orange tree is spheric-
al, and sometimes flattened. It's peel is
more or less thin, according to the kinds;
it's interior part is light, stringy, and
tasteless; its exterior is thin, colored a
golden yellow, which distinguishes the
orange from the lemon and citron, and
is composed of quantity of vesicles
containing an agreeable essential oil.
The sections, nine in number, which
form the larger part of the fruit, are en-
veloped in a transparent membrane,
which is with much facility detached
from the peel to which it clings only by
the white, cottony substance forming
the interior skin. The pulp contained
by these sections is formed of quantity
of oblong vesicles of deep yellow color,
full of sweet and refreshing juice, and
contains oblong cartilaginous, and yell
lowish seeds.
THE BIGARADE TREE.
The orange tree having sour fruit, or
the bigarade, does not grow SO high as
the sweet orange; its leaf has the heart
of the petiole more pronounced; its
flower has vastly more aroma, and is
preferred for perfuming waters and es-
sences; it's fruit is somewhat rough and
of deeper reddish tint, and the vesicles
contained in the exterior skin have
stronger aroma, indicating also the bit
terness of the interior neel and the