ORIGIN OF GRAPEFRUIT
DEVELOPED BY CHINESE. Grapefruit, which is now .such a popular article of diet, wTas developed hy the Chinese some 3000 yeai*s ago from one of the wild citrus trees with which their country ahounds, and whose natural fruits are small and hardly edible. In the 18th century it was taken hy an Englishman, Captain Shaddock, to the West Indies, and grown there with success. Thence it spread to the United States, whose fruit-growers have given it much attention and have improved it considerably.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 448, 4 February 1933, Page 3
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