ORIGIN OF GRAPEFRUIT
DEVELOPED BY THE CHINESE. Grapefruit, which is now such a popular article of diet, was developed by the Chinese some 3000 years ago from one of the wild citrus trees with which their country abounds, an whose natural fruits are small and hardly edible. In the 18th century it was taken by an Englishman, Captain Shaddock, to the West Indies and grown there with success. Thence it spread to the United States, whose fruit groves have given it much attention and have improved it considerably.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1933, Page 12
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