The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-12-24

and Gin the shape of an elongated egg"
a race resembling the lime of Naples.
This lemon is certainly the same as
the arild lemons found by Bellon, near
Cairo, (which have fruit never larger
than pigeons egg" (Bel. c. SO, p. 236.)
Burmanni, in speaking of a kind OF
limonia which he found near Ceylon,
connects it to the wild lemons of Bellon !;
but it is evident that the n,dtus libao1aid
of Ceylon, is Iinaonellies (Limonia, L.) !;
and Bellon' S lemons are true lemon-trees
Of small fruit, such as the lime of Naples,
and the balm-lemon spoken of by ADD
Allatif. gil az i.an z l-i'o
The monsters inclosing another lemon
in their interior are but yearly accidents,
which might have occurred in the time
of Abd-Allatif, as now. (s'Some citrons
have inside another citron with yellow
skin" p. 81. 3itR Nte
In the m0kh0ttdn, or sealed lemon, we
see variety very singular and difficult
to recognize. AbdAllatif says: "There
is another sort of lemon called mokhat-
tan, that is to say sealed, which is of a
deeper and more bright red than the
orange; they are perfectly round, and a
little fiattened above and below, as if
forced in by pressing there seal. This
peculiar variety resembles none known
to us. 1t appears to be lumie or by
brid of the red orange and lemon.
According to this writer, it owes the
epithet mokhdttdn to the fattened APP
pearance of its extremities.
The conical citron, of which he speaks,
is apparently but modification of shape,
which might connect it with varieties
cultivated by us; but one cannot deter
mine that, by this single circumstance.
("There are also citrons having an abso-
lutely conical form, beginning in base,
and ending in point; but which other
wise, in color, odor, taste Of pulp and
acidity, differ in no way from the cit
ron, = Abd-All.)l WeAhave sevral varie-
ties that affect this. form; (the lemon
perettd is the opposite) and among others,
the citronlof Florence. 8 81
Ebn-Ayyas, in his large History. OF
/ Egypt, points out alsSa quantity of these
acid fraits,) (hamidhafl but gives no de.
scription by which they can made known
to us.
He names only the citron, the lemon
/ Tie orange, the cabbad, the halAmadh
Schoairi, and the red French lemon
which was, it is said. taken to Egypt in
the year 300 of the Hegira. 4
The red French lemon is, perhaps, a
variety of the citron. The Franks Ga
name given by Arabians to all people of
Western Europe,) long had known the
citron it is not impossible that they.
had procured variety in Sicily or Sar-
DINA, which, carried to Egypt, had got
ten the name of French, or the name
may have come from some Frenchman
having cultivated it first in Egypt. (See
notes of M. de Sacy upon the first book
of ADD Allatif, p. no
l shall not enter upon the examination
of the hdmmGdh schOGiri and red lemon.
1t is very difficult, from the little said of
them, to imagine to what variety they
ought to be assigned; and would mere
ly say, with regard to the cdbbdd, that if
it is the same which Vansleb calls keb-
bad, in his new book about Egypt, it
should be classed with the Adams APP
pie, seeing that this author describes it
as tree bearing oranges of enormous
size, and the Adams apple, citrus decu-
aaanus, has precisely analogous proper
ties.
1t is more easy to recognize the races
reported by Ebn-el-Awam in his Treatise
on Agriculture, where he speaks of the
agrumi of Seville.
This Spanish Arab distinguishes four
species, calling them citronier, Granger,
iGpSamOx, or yasamou, or Zambou, and
Iim0nier, which names the translator
rendered in Spanish, as cidro ndrdnjo,
6non, and liniero, IIamddO (toronjo ar
bode,) zdnbO0 or bOStqmboun, and which
is but the Adam apple. s '''it.ol'
(sThe dtrundj, the nGre1ldj, the yosa-
1aou, called LANDAU, and tie ldmoun
jaime, are as one species, and are cult