ANTIQUITY OF GRAPEFRUIT
Grapefruit, which is now such a popular article of diet, was developed by the Chineso some 3000 years ago from one of the wild citrus trees with, which their fionntry abounds, and whose natural fruits are small and hardly edible. In the 18th century the grapefruit was taken by an Englishman, Captain Shaddock, to the West Indies and grown there with success. Thence it spread to th© United States, whose, fruit-grow-ers have give it much attention' and have improved it considerably. The fruit is in some places called the shaddock, after Captain Shaddock.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 62, 15 March 1933, Page 12
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96ANTIQUITY OF GRAPEFRUIT Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 62, 15 March 1933, Page 12
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