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FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 413
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Summer's Light Fruits Have Long Since Fl...
minister a work on of A tlie grictilture king of Portugal in 1569 , . speaking Gallo , however of the that sweet , who oranges published had been in
the cultivated neighborhood there from of time Salo immemorial on Lake . Garcia and , says even that they most decisive from whose final dictum there ; is no appeal—the _" oldest
personage upon inhabitant the question , "——bring , could ing the not wei remember that ght of the nonagenarian Lisbon a time tree when memory could the trees not to have bear had
from not been been . the . To first there the or Italians , which only one shows and broug to the ht to Genoese Europe in at particular the time , Ga it l dates essio
from gives the the East credit before of having , long been they the began earliest to cultivate importers them of , these and in trees the ;
that territory in 1525 of St the . Remo munici their pal Council number of soon that became city ax _3 so _j ) ointed considerable a magis- , and laid clown
trate specially to superintend this branch of commerce , rules tation for thence its regulation amounted , b to y several which it millions is found of that fruit the and annual that nearl expor y -
, all France lied from , Germany there , and It is several at Genoa other in the countries present of day Europ , that e , these were
p supp lants meet with the . most regular hborhood and , garden- be like said culture to , so l that all
the Europe there orange than with in orchards France trees . in Less but that this attention nei is g more , however than may compensated , is devoted supp for to b them y y the
special natural scientificall suitability disadvantages y in Paris of , than soil which at and Genoa cannot climate , or be , ; indeed for overcome thoug , anywhere h prevent treated else more their , yet
attaining The date equal of _jDerfection the introduction . of the orange-tree into our own in his
"country " where History are is of supposed several Surrey , " to mentioning have -trees been lanted the about in orangery the 1596 open , Aubrey of ground Bedding , , where ton , orangep
preserved they have during throve to the admiration winter under for above a moveable a whole covert century . They , but were the are
first broug attempt ht from Ital of the y by kind Sir Francis that we Carew hear , of kni . " ght The , and " Biograp it was hia trees with
Britannica" howeverconnects the origin of these a more illustrious , nameasserting , that " from a tradition preserved in the
the famil first y , they oranges were , which raised were by Sir imported Francis the into Carew Eng hter land , from of by Sir the Sir Nicholas seeds Walter of
trees Throgmorton Raleig were h , who thirteen . _" had It married feet has hi been h his and state niece that d , , at that least daug in ten 1690 thousand most of oranges these g
Thoug wer a century e g h athered generall and a from half looked , them they were on that , as all year lants killed ; but onl by after y the fit great for flourishing the frost conservatory in for 1739 about -40 . ,
in they Devonshire have for ab trained y ove a like hundred peach p year -trees s past against been walls grown , and in sheltered gardens
only with straw , mats in * winter , yet producing fruit as large and
Fruits In Their Season. 413
FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 413
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 413, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/53/
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