she started somewhere in the late seventies of the last century at the initiative of the kosmolsky academyat that time he was the director of the botanical garden. the first to appear in the collection was a lemon, pavlovsky is considered to be the most auspicious. uh, the most suitable species for cultivation in greenhouses of northern latitudes. it is also suitable for indoor citrus growing. well, then other varieties appeared, either monmers or monmonokella, which is considered very resistant to all diseases and pests of citrus fruits, today we have 109 species and varieties of citrus plants in our collection all the time. replenishment of the collection work with lovers of citrus growers, and. and, of course, with the leading institutions of other countries in this field. are there citrus fruits in the botanical garden today, right here belarusian ones, bred by our scientists, perhaps, among our specimens, so to speak. they are. yes, of course, for about 20 years. years. we are doing selection work. we have five varieties of selection of the botanical garden grapefruit orange dwarf pom