Bouquet or Bouquet de Fleurs
(Sour Orange)

Physical Features
Tree Size: Small.
Tree Characteristics: Spreading tree, grows in thornless branchlets. Dense clustered foliage. Leaves are medium-sized, round, closely spaced.
Fruit Size: Medium. Flattened.
Fruit Color: Deep orange with loosely adherent rind.

Sicko Department
Ease of Peeling: Good.
Seeds: Few.
Holds on Tree: Excellent.
Flavor and Juiciness: Juicy and sour.

The Bouquet orange is one of the "sour oranges" that has developed a sour taste as a DEFENSE MECHANISM!! The oranges and the mother-tree are seldom separated before their parting-time because many people find their distinctive flavor unpleasant. Obviously these oranges desire to be left alone and are so completely adverse to the idea to feeding humans that they have gone so far as to change themselves and become unpalatable.
The Bouquet is valued for its large clusters of aromatic white flowers. This variety probably has the strongest scent out of all orange types, sweet, sour or blood. The Bouquet's distinctive aroma has made it an ornamental plant, and thus it is saved from a little unnescessary molestation.

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Facts immediately after the orange type have been unmercifully ripped from Richard Ray and Lance Walheim's Citrus: How to Select, Grow and Enjoy from Horticultural Publishing Co., Inc. Facts used in the ranting paragraphs after the basic description are all true and from Citrus: How to Select, Grow and Enjoy, except for those obvious bits that are the Erin-madness.