The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-07-16

which enclose within themselves another
fruit with its rind, or only multitude of
cells crossed and confounded one
with another, all appear upon ordi-
nary trees only in the midst of other
fruits; and, far from owing their form to
the nature of the plant which bears
them, they are the result OF an extraor-
dinary and irregular fertilization, which
has acted upon the thin skin, (pericarp)
of the individual fruit.
Thus it becomes necessary to place in
the class of monstronsities the five vari-
| cites spoken OF in the Hesperides by
Nolcamerius, on page fl, 45, 50, 116, III.
These extraordinary fruits appear
more frequently among certain varieties,
yet but few OF these monsters are found
Ia the midst OF a great number of fruits
whose forms are unaltered.
TARIETIES-NO. l.
Citrus medica cedra fructu oblongo, crasso,
eduii, odoTatissimo, Citronier, des Juifs. (Ce-
drat.)
Cedro degli Ebrei vulgo. (Pitima) NAHUM
citreuan maximum Salodianum. Cedro crosse
bondelotto. (volc) Cedrato ordinario. (Ib.)
Citreum vulgare. (Tournef) Limonia ce-
dra fructu maximo, conico verrucoso, sapore,
ct oCiore insigni. Il. 3. Calvel.)
Citrus medica: cedro: cedrato. (Targ. Inst.
Bot0
OltruS IIStllcd CeOrH. (DpSIOnLs hid. Oc
P-Ecole do de Bot)
The cedrat, properly speaking, or cit
ron OF Media, is a tree OF medium height,
with root greatly branched or ramified,
! yellow outside, whitish within.
The general appearance of the tree is
irregular and scattering. The trunk is
of greyish green, striped with white.
The wood is hard, and branches tough,
short and well grown. The buds are
large, prominent, and furnished with a
single thorn, short and thick. The
shoots, OF scions, violet at their budding,
| change finally to green. The leaf is long,
regularly pointed, and almost as large
, near the eXtremities as in the middle it
is.of beautiful green, bitter to the taste,
and odorous. The flowers are in clusters
| -cup-shaped, large and full-havine
five white petals shaded on the outer
| side with purple, and thirty or forty sta
/ mems; tife ss4Itl.eI osoiong, and clear vel
| low; the pistil, large and long, rests
upon the ovary. Some of the flowers
lacking this part, fall off. The flower
has feeble odor, and yields very little
essence. ~ ~ &
The fruit is large and oblong, carrying
sometimes the pistil upon its point. The
rind is yellowish, thin, glossy, little
uneven, and contains delicious aroma.
The inner skin is thick, tender, aromatic,
rather sweet, and may be eaten with
sugar, or made into conserves. This
skin adheres very closely to the pulp,
which is thin, composed of an infinity
of whitish vesicles, containing slightly
acid, yet somewhat insipid juice, and
enclosing a great number of oblong seeds
covered by reddish skin, and formed
of a whitish and bitter. kernel. The cit
ron tree ,ef Medals grown in Liguria
only from slips; these root very easily.
1t issometimes grated upon the bigarade
(sour orange.1
1T bears but little fruit, and fears ex-
tremely the cold 1t blossoms almost
continually, and chiefly in winter. The
fruit is sold in autumn and in winter for
conserves, which are delicious. 1t is
| bought ina summer by the Jews, who use
it in August for their Feast of Taberna-
cles.. Ht tg
This tree is cultivated largely at San
Reno, San Steffano, and Taggia (De
parment of Maritime Alps,) and there is
fine tree in the Jardin des Plantes,
Paris.
VARIETIES-NO. II.
Citrus medica cedra fruc tn maximo GEN
nensi.
Citronniera groS fruit.
Cedrone.
NAHUM citrum Gennense vulgare. (Vole.)
Citrum Genense magni increment. Ger
Hesp)
The citron OF Genoa differs but little
from the citron of the Jews, except in
it's fruit, which is extremely developed,
and of which the flesh is tough and less
delicate This variety is cultivated for
its beauty, rather than its use to the con-
fectioner, at Tazzia, St. Reno, and at
Mention.
t't VARIETIES-NO. Ill.
Citrus Inedica cedla f1uct uparvo Salodiano.
Citr0nier de Salo: Petit Cedrat: Cedrino:
CedratellO.
Citrum Salidoanum parvum bonitate pri-
Cedrato di Gardda. (volc. part 2.)
The small citron of Salo is very fine
fruit, sought after for the aroma of the
outer and for the delicacy of the inner
skin 1t originally appeared at Salo, on
the Lake of Garda, where it's culture is
very extensive.
1t is also cultivated at Nervi, at Pegi
and at Final, where it is called cedri,ao.
1t differs from the citron of Florence
only in the leaf, which, in the latter, re-
sembles that of the lemon, while that OF
Salo has an entirely citron leaf; and in
the form of the fruit, which is little more
ovate. Some pretend that this is inferior
in taste and perfume to the citron Of
Florence.
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