--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From a New York Times magazine article this week about kumquats: > > ...Kumquats, which are not citrus fruits but belong to another genus, > originated in China and have been cultivated across Asia for centuries.
Many suburban homes here in the Valley of the Sun have citrus trees. On my property is an Arizona Sweet orange tree and two Brazilian Blood orange bushes (although they are bushes I get about 100 oranges a year from each). The campus of Arizona State University in Tempe (aka ASU) is officially an arboretum...it's got all sorts of wonderful trees from all over the world. The ASU campus has one or two Kumquat trees. What's interesting about kumquats is that they are sort of the OPPOSITE of an orange tree: oranges are bitter on the outside (the rind) and sweet on the inside; kumquats are sweet on the outside and bitter on the inside. > They inspired some unorthodox grafting techniques: in "The Oxford > Companion to Food," Alan Davidson cites this bit of instruction from > the "Book of Nabatean Agriculture," a 10th-century Iraqi text: "The > branch which is to be grafted must be in the hand of a beautiful > damsel, whilst a male person has disgraceful and unnatural sexual > intercourse with her; during intercourse the woman grafts the branch > into the tree." > > Modern growers have streamlined the cultivation process somewhat.... > > http://tinyurl.com/kyjtr > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
