[Illustration: ORANGE.] ORANGE (Citrus Aurantium).The principal varieties are the sweet, or China orange, and the bitter, or Seville orange; the Maltese is also worthy of notice, from its red blood-like pulp.

CITRON.The fruit of the citron-tree (Citrus medica) is acidulous, antiseptic, and antiscorbutic: it excites the appetite, and stops vomiting, and, like lemon-juice, has been greatly extolled in chronic rheumatism, gout, and scurvy.

SEVILLE ORANGE (Citrus vulgaris).This variety, called also bitter orange, is of the same species as the sweet orange, and grows in great abundance on the banks of the Guadalquiver, in Andalusia, whence this fruit is chiefly obtained.

CITRUS TRIFOLIATA.Japan, 1869.

Their specialty is citrus fruits, but their products are not limited to that line.

FRANCES Citrus Association.

R59686, 20Mar50, Frances Citrus Assn.

The cultivation of citrus fruits.

Confectioner's handbook for exchange citrus pectin.

Color handbook of citrus diseases.

FRANCES Citrus Association.

R59686, 20Mar50, Frances Citrus Assn.

The cultivation of citrus fruits.

Confectioner's handbook for exchange citrus pectin.

Color handbook of citrus diseases.

Height, 3 ft. to 6 ft. Citrus Japonica.

"But" he added, "is not this villa, which our ancestors constructed, simpler and so better than that elaborate one of yours at Reate: do you see any where here any furniture of citrus wood or ormolu, any decorations of vermillion or blue, any tessellations or mosaic work, all of which on the other hand were displayed in your house?

In some parts of the country and on particular farms this specialization is extreme: in California, citrus fruits, or prunes, or beans, may be the only crop raised; wheat in Kansas and the Dakotas, and dairy products in thousands of farms surrounding the great cities, are the main, tho not the exclusive products.

The membership of the former is made up entirely of the local citrus growers' associations in California.

Some of these societies, as those dealing in citrus fruits, regulate with some success the picking and the marketing so as to distribute them more evenly throughout the year.

THE GRAPE FRUIT.This fruit, a variety of shaddock, belongs to the great citrus family, of which there are one hundred and sixty-nine known varieties.

There was no salt in the air, no citrus scent in the breeze, no heavy incense of the great magnolia bloom perfuming the wilderness like a cathedral aisle where a young bride passes, clouded in lace.