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See also:KUMQUAT (Citrus japonica) , a much-branched See also:shrub from 8 to 12 ft. high, the branches sometimes bearing small thorns, with dark See also:green glossy leaves and pure See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:orange-like See also:flowers See also:standing singly or clustered in the See also:leaf-axils. The See also:bright orange-yellow See also:fruit is See also:round or ellipsoidal, about i in. in See also:diameter, with a thick minutely tuberculate rind, the inner lining of which is sweet, and a watery acidulous pulp. It has See also:long been cultivated in See also:China and See also:Japan, and was introduced to See also:Europe in 1846 by Mr See also:Fortune, See also:collector for the See also:London Horticultural Society, and shortly after into See also:North See also:America. It is much hardier than most See also:plants of the orange tribe, and succeeds well when grafted on the See also:wild See also:species, Citrus trifoliata. It is largely used by the See also:Chinese as a sweetmeat preserved in See also:sugar.
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