[Sca-cooks] On Citrus Fruits

[Johnna Holloway]

Those interested in citrus fruits and their history may like

http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/

It contains the the text of a work called:
The Citrus Industry. Revised Edition
University of California
Division of Agricultural Sciences
1967

Volume I: History, World Distribution, Botany, and Varieties
seems to be quite good on the distribution of various citrus varieties.

This is the work that is mentioned in the Florilegium message that
follows:
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:42:34 -0800
From: david friedman <ddfr at best.com>
Subject: SC - Citrus Fruit History (long)

I have just been reading the first chapter of a multi-volume work called

_The Citrus Industry_, which goes into considerable detail about what
the
evidence is on what citrus fruit came into use when and where. This is a

summary of its conclusions.
The author of this chapter, Herbert John Webber, concludes that all
citrus
are native to southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago. snipped

Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway