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The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical

by Frank H. Stauffer

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Curious Oranges

There are many oranges, of curious shape and flavor, which we seldom or never see in this country. Such are the pear-shaped kind grown in the far East; the orange of the Philippines, which is no larger than a good-sized cherry; the double orange, in which two perfect oranges appear, one within the other; and the “fingered citron” of China, which is very large, and is placed on the table by the Celestials rather for its exquisite fragrance than for its flavor.

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