The Florida agriculturist., 1884-08-13

Wnlbe, SpOnSy ana rllglt, Inc SocLlOnS.
nine to eleven in number, contain asweet
juice, very refreshing and agreeable; its
seeds are white and oblong, terminating
very easily and reproducing usually the
species with little change. There is
variety with no thorns; it is the race
cultivated mostly by grating, and is seen
in all countries where this method Of
propagating is followed. In places where
the orange is grown from seed, it is rare
to find it deprived of thcrns.
vARIETIES-NO XXX.
Citrus aurantium Sinense fructu globoso
cortice tennissimo, lucido, glabro. medulla
Granger de la Chine.
AranciO finO della China,
Aurantium Olysipone@se sive Sinense
Lisbense. Oranje appel.
AuIantium Sinense: Aranzo da Sina.
Poma da Sina. (Volc., p. 1857
The China orange is variety excell-
ing all others in the perfection of its
fruit, OF which the juice is the sweetest,
the most abundant, and the most per-
tuned. The skin is always smooth,
glossy, and so thin that one can scarce
detach it from the pulp. This is char
acteristic of this variety.
The orange of China grows from seed,
as does that OF Portugal, and / have in
my garden many individuals of it which
have grown from seeds of ordinary or
ange. 1t has, commonly, thorn by the
side OF the bud, but there are those from
seed which lack this part.
Rumphius reports under the name of
Gurdnttune saaeaese, or lemon mdnistsjind, a
species of sweet orange, at Amboyna,
which seems to be the same as this. He
says that tree grows higher and more
rounded at top than the sour orange, a
difference which also distinguishes them
among us; that its leaf, furnished with
thorn, is long and winged; that its
fruit, round and large, is of blackish
green color, and its juice is sweet and
vinous.
He adds that there is second variety
with fruit smaller and less sweet, and a.
third, of which the tree grows extremely
high, and has flowers and fruit larger
than ord isss.rS
An examination Of their nature would
be necessary Ia order to decide whether
they belong to our European varieties.
vARIETnEs-No. xxxH.
Citrus aurantium Hierochucticum fructu
OTanger fruit ropge. fE4 K
Arancfo sanguignO. kAs
Aurantum Philiippinum fructu medic, me-
dulla dulci purpuuea. Ger, p. 429.
Orange rouge de Portugal: Orange grenade.
Orange de Malta. lNouv. Diet d'Hist. Nat.)
The red-fruited orange is singular
variety. Its appearances, its leaf, its
flower are exactly like the common
,orange. Its fruit alone is distinguished
bySa color ofblood, which develops itself
gradually, and like flakes. When the
fruit begins to oiripen it is like other oran-
ges; little by little spots CT blood-color
appear in its pulp ! as it advances to
maturity these enlarge, becoming deeper,
and finally embrace all the pulp and
spread to the skin, which is, however,
but rarely covered by the peculiar color;
I yet this sometimes occurs if oranges
are left upon the trees after the month
of May.
This orange is multiplied only by
gratis, having few seeds, and those of
little value. This Us a proof that it is
monster; if it were the type of a species
it would yield more seed and reproduce
itself by seed. Its branches are without
thorns, its fruit is sweet, but less so than
the China oranges, and it has thicker
skin.
1t is cultivated largely in Malta and in
Provence. In Liguria it is found chiefly
among amateurs and seedsmen.
/ would here remark that the greater
number OF botanists, in describing the
India oranges, speak often of varieties
which are distinguished by a cinous pulp:
MedullG uinos0, (Rumph.) Cam paucG
tinositate, Qb.) MedallG cinOsi sapOris,
(Kamph.) 1t appears very probable
that they have intended to express by
the word UinOsa (wine-like) the blood
color which distinguishes our red orange.
If this be so, our orange is of Indian
origin evidently, and may well be a hy-
brid of the Citrus durasatium eWlgdre, and
some one of the species of India.
vARIETIEs-NO- xxxII.
Gitrus aurantium sinense pumilum fructu
Granger main frHit doux.
AranciO nanO dolce.
Arafzo nano dolce. lVolc.l
l. Aluminium humile pumilun fOlliis Ovatis,
horibxs sessilibus. lMillar.l
The sweet-fruited dwarf orange was
still, at the middle of the seventeenth
century. confined to China. Ferraris
saws that it was not cultivated at the
Philippines, and that the Chinese car
ried large quantities to Manila. 1t is to
be supposed that since then it has been
naturalized i'm Europe. / have found it
in the Hesperides of Volcamerius, and
| it appears that it is reported by Millar
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