LOQUAT, linwilt (from Canton Chin. lu•teat, from luk, a rush. kiult. orange), Eriobotrya ja ponica. A Chinese and Japanese fruit, of the natural order Rosaeere, introduced in subtropical climates, and becoming popular in California and Florida. The tree or shrub which produces it is an evergreen, which attains a height of 20 or 30 feet, but in cultivation is seldom allowed to exceed 12. feet. It has large oblong wrinkled leaves; fragrant white flowers in terminal woolly panicles; downy oval or pear-shaped yellow fruit about an inch in diameter; and seeds of an agreeable flavor, which they impart to tarts. During the closing years of the nineteenth cen tury several improved varieties were produced in California.
LORAIN, 15-ran'. A city in Lorain County, Ohio, 25 miles west of Cleveland, on Lake Erie, at the mouth of the Black River. and on the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling and the New York, Chicago and Saint Louis railroads (Map: Ohio, F 3). It is in a natural-gas region; is the
outlet for the central Ohio coalfields; ships, from a fine harbor, large quantities of coal, lum ber, iron ore, and grain; and has important in dustrial interests, including sled-works, foun dries, automatic shovel-works. a ship-building plant, stove-works, brick-works. etc. There is a public library. Lorain was chartered as a city of the second class in 1896, its government being vested in a mayor, elected every two years, a unicameral council, and administrative offi cials as follows: Police force, appointed by the executive with the council's consent: board of health, elected by the council; and marshal, board of education, and water-works trustees. chosen by popular election. The city owns and operates the water-works. Population, in 4863; in 1900, 16.028.