The Cultivated Oranges and Lemons

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ORANGES AND LEMONS OF INDIA. CHAPTER I. THE SEVILLE ORANGES. The Emperor Baber, in his memoirs, mentions the naranj as one of the kinds of Citrus he found in India. I don't, however, believe that he meant by this name the bitter or Seville orange. He says little about the Indian oranges, but a good deal...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ORANGES AND LEMONS OF INDIA. CHAPTER I. THE SEVILLE ORANGES. The Emperor Baber, in his memoirs, mentions the naranj as one of the kinds of Citrus he found in India. I don't, however, believe that he meant by this name the bitter or Seville orange. He says little about the Indian oranges, but a good deal about those of Central Asia, and the N.W. frontier of India. He adds that in the latter part it is called ndrank. The kinds he alludes to are evidently sweet oranges of some sort (vide Baber's memoirs, Appendix No. 1 ( )). It is more probable that his kirneh is the Seville orange. He says it is acid. There is, however, much confusion in Indian names of Citrus. Kama is one of the names given to a true Seville, on the western coast. While another totally different kind ?the khatla of most places?is, by some, also called karna. I am informed that the latter name in Sanskrit means bitter. Risso, in his monograph, gives narandj as the Arabic Synonym of the Citrus Bigaradia, the Seville orange, and Alphonse de Candolle credits the Arabs Although Risso gives narandj as synonymous with Seville orange. t Appendix, No. 1 (i). with having transported the bitter orange from Western India to Persia, Arabia, Syria, Northern Africa, and Spain. The Arab physicians are known to have used it in their pharmaceutical preparations. The Arab name ndranj may or may not have been derived from nagrung, the supposed Sanskrit name for orange. Sir J. Hooker, following Brandis, places the bitter or Seville orange, as Var. 2, Bigaradia, of Citrus aurantium, Linn., and says petiole usually winged, flowers larger, and more strongly scented (than those of the sweet orange), rind very aromatic, pulp bitter. And the original of which this is supposed to be only a variety, he cons...