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 | | Risso and Poiteau enumerate forty-seven varieties of this fruit, although they maintain as distinct the sweet lime, C. Limetta, with eight varieties, and the sweet lemon, C. Lumia, with twelve varieties, which differ only in the fruit possessing an insipid instead of an acid juice. |
 | | As a cultivated plant the lemon is now met with throughout the Mediterranean region, in Spain and Portugal, in California and Florida, and in almost all tropical and subtropical countries, Like the apple and pear, it varies exceedingly under cultivation. |
 | | The lemon is more delicate than the orange, although, according to Humboldt, both require an annual niean temperature of 62 Fahr. |
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