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July 22, 1897
Freeland Tribune
Freeland, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
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Description of peculiar horned oranges and other monstrous fruit forms cherished in Chinese gardens, including hand oranges, horn oranges, and Citrus aurantium distorium resembling sea shells. Explains botanical morphology behind these variations.
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Peculiar Horned Orange.
The Chinese are very fond of monstrous forms of fruits and flowers, and any departure from the normal form is usually cherished and highly valued. In their gardens they have numerous forms of monstrous oranges—some will produce fruit with points like fingers, and are known as the hand orange. Another form has a long horn projecting from the apex, and are known as the horn orange. Another variety, which botanists have known by the name of Citrus aurantium distorium, bears a fruit in the resemblance of a cluster of sea shells. To one ignorant of the laws of vegetable morphology, these spells of wandering from the normal type are very mysterious; but when it is understood that all parts of the orange, as well as other fruits, are made up of what would have been leaves or branches changed so as to constitute the various parts of the seed and vessels, and that a very little difference in the degree of life energy will change them into various different parts that come to make up the fruit, and the mystery in a great measure is solved.
There are few branches of botany which give the lover of fruits and flowers so much pleasure as the study of morphology.—Meehan's Monthly.
The Chinese are very fond of monstrous forms of fruits and flowers, and any departure from the normal form is usually cherished and highly valued. In their gardens they have numerous forms of monstrous oranges—some will produce fruit with points like fingers, and are known as the hand orange. Another form has a long horn projecting from the apex, and are known as the horn orange. Another variety, which botanists have known by the name of Citrus aurantium distorium, bears a fruit in the resemblance of a cluster of sea shells. To one ignorant of the laws of vegetable morphology, these spells of wandering from the normal type are very mysterious; but when it is understood that all parts of the orange, as well as other fruits, are made up of what would have been leaves or branches changed so as to constitute the various parts of the seed and vessels, and that a very little difference in the degree of life energy will change them into various different parts that come to make up the fruit, and the mystery in a great measure is solved.
There are few branches of botany which give the lover of fruits and flowers so much pleasure as the study of morphology.—Meehan's Monthly.
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
Food Or Drink
What keywords are associated?
Horned Orange
Monstrous Fruits
Chinese Gardens
Hand Orange
Citrus Aurantium Distorium
Vegetable Morphology
Where did it happen?
China
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Topic
Peculiar Horned Orange And Monstrous Fruit Forms
Location
China
Event Details
The Chinese cherish monstrous forms of fruits like hand oranges with finger-like points, horn oranges with a projecting horn, and Citrus aurantium distorium resembling sea shells. Botanical explanation attributes variations to changes in leaf and branch structures due to life energy differences.