Shaddock

Shaddock (Citrus decumanus; see CITRUS), a tree, which, like the other species of the same genus, is a native of the East Indies, and which has long been cultivated in the south of Europe. It is said to derive its English name from a Captain Shaddock, by whom it was introduced from China into the West Indies about 1810. It is readily distinguished from most of its congeners by its large leaves and broad-winged leaf-stalk; it has very large white flowers, and the fruit is also very large, sometimes weighing ten or even fourteen pounds, roundish, pale yellow; the rind thick, white and spongy within, bitter; the pulp greenish and watery, subacid, and subaromatic. It is a pleasant, cooling fruit, and much used for preserves. The tree is rather more tender than the orange, but with proper care is often made to produce fine fruit in orangeries in Britain. Finer and smaller than the Shaddock proper is the Pomelo (also called Pummelo, Pompelmoose, and Grape-fruit), a variety rather larger than an orange which bears its fruit in clusters. Both varieties are grown in Florida, and the pomelo is exported thence to the northern states.