The Florida agriculturist., 1884-07-30

! apple, OF which the leaf is little less
| lanceolated, and the buds close together
and no thorn. Finally, they named one
horned bigarade, a common bigarade
which sometimes bears monsters, hay
ing the shape of horn. All these va
rieties differ so little as to be scarcely
worth the trouble of describing.
The bigarade is usually the tree upon
which is grated the other species of
agrumi. Sometimes it is grated upon
itself, in order to produce smaller tree
suitable for vases.
| In Liguria it is called mdrgdritiaO or
| orange OF st. Marguerite.
| VAEIETIES-NO. XVIII.
Ciuu aulantium Indicum fiore semi i-pIeno
| fructu sel'e, iUtifero, medulla acida.
Bigaradier Il fleur double ct semi-doube, u
| fruit SOuyent mOnStreuX.
| Araacio forte II tior doppio e sem i-doppio e
| n fruttO speSSo fetiforO.
Aurantium tlore duplice. Fer. p. 3s7.
Aurantium bore plenO.
! Ar1nzo di flor e Scorza dOppiO. Volc.
Granger a 1ieur double. Millar.
This variety has Improperly been call
ed double fiowered. 1t is very seldom
that these flowers are full of petals;
llltN are UuI anu
| yield very often monstrous fruit, enclos-
within themselves a second fruit. We
have already observed that this phenom-
enon is very frequent in these monstrOus
varieties.
VARIETlES-NO, XIX.
Citrus aurantium Indicum salcifulium
Granger a feuille de saule. or Turquo Use.
AranciO a toglia ri S" lice, Arancio Turco.
Anl,antn lnWuStO S.lliciS folio dictu m
Boer.
The Turkish orange is but bigarade,
whose leaves, lanceolated and pointed.
are very straight and long like those OF
the willow. Otherwise it has all the
traits OF the bigarade, both in flower and
| fruit the latter is sharp and bitter, and
, has the form and color of the bigarade.
This tree is not cultivated in Liguira
except by collectors of varieties, and by
| the seedsmen of Nervi, who multiply it
| by graft for their trade in plants. A spe-
cimen of these trees may be seen in the
Garden of Plants at Paris.
NABgETIES-NO. xX5
Citrus aurstntfum fndicum crispofoi1un inui-
| tifiorium ffuctu paivo, afnaro ct acido.
Bouqueiier or Richie depouille
Arancioa II InaZzettO.
Aurantium crispo-folio. Fer. p. ss7
Aurantium crispo-folio. lTournefI
AranzO fOglia rizZa, VOlc.
Granger feuileS friSees. Millar.l
Citrus Aurantium mnltitorum.
Granger richie depouillu. Desfont
The orange with curled leaf grows as
shrub its boughs are short, straight and
bushy its buds or shoots are very close
| together, bearing a quilted ovate leaf,
which covers the stem ON all sides, and
| gives to the tree the rounded and pointed
| form of a cone. The flowers come out of
these shoots in great numbers, appearing
| to cover the bough on all sides, thus
| forming very large and beautiful bou-
quet The fruit is a trife larger than the
small Chinese orange, which it closely
resembles in taste and smell. 1t is
bigarade of small fruit, cultivated in
| Liguria among collectors and seedsmen.
There is a specimen of it in the Garden
of Plants III Parise and have observed
one at the Tuilleries which surpasses in
size and beauty all / have seen of this
race in the south.
VARIETIES-NO. XXI.
Citrus aurantium indicum caule ct fructu
pumilo cOrtice ct medulla amara, succo acido.
| Granger nam: Petit Chinois.
NainO China ChInottO: Napolino.
Aurntium Sinense pumilum: [VOlc.
AranzO nanO garbo.
POmin di Dana.
Aurantium Goanum pumium: Aulantium
| Sinense: Malus aurantia humiliS: OranJe-bOOm
met de kleine vrught anders nanntje. [COm.
The dwarf orange is most desirable
variety for ornamenting houses and gar
| dens, being a shrub, and dwarfed in all
its parts. The stem, the boughs the leaf,
the flower and the fruit, are all small.
In vases it attains to the size of rose
bush, and in the open air it grows only to
| the height of about seven feet.
Its branches have the appearance of
nosegays; this is owing to the proximi-
| ty of the buds, and to the leaf and the
| flower alternating.
| They have no thorns, and bear very
| odorous flower. The fruit, sour and Bit
ter, is about the size of small apricot,
and is excellent for conserving.
| The dwarf orangei is cultivated at Nor
viedro, in the Kingdom of Valencia,
where the skin is an article of trade, the
cut and dried peel being used as season.
ing of food. 1t is also largely cultivated
in Liguria, principally at Savona, from
| whence in early days the Genoese man
| ufacturerers of confits were furnished
with this fruit.
VARIETIES-N0. XIII.
Citrus aurantium Indicum caule ct fructu
pumilO, myrtifOlium
| Granger main feullles de myrte
Nanino da China a folgia di nairto,
Aluminium myrteis loiiis sinense. [Ferr.l
The myrtle-leaved dwarf orange is a
sub-variety unknown in Europe at the
middle OF the seventeenth century. Fer