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tioned here (in his Dictionary); and another friend* assured me 
that he had a tree which produced the like in his garden at Salis- 
bury: but this I saw myself, and it induces me to think that the 
peach is the mother of the nectarines ; the latter being a modern 
fruit, as there is no Greek or Latin name for it. 
Copied from my nephew Thomas Collinson’s Journal of his 
Travels, 1754.—* In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, anno the 
first orange- and lemon-trees were introduced into England by two 
curious gentlemen, one of them Sir Nicholas Carew, at Bedington, 
near Croydon, in Surrey.” (The title is lately extinct, anno 1 (63.) 
These orange-trees were planted in the natural ground; but 
against every winter an artificial covering was raised for their 
protection. I have seen them some years ago in great perfection. 
But this apparatus going to decay, without due consideration a 
green-house of brick-work was built all round them, and left on 
the top uncovered in the summer. I visited them a year or two 
after, in their new habitation, and to my great concern found 
some dying, and all declining; for, althoügh there were windows 
on the south side, they did not thrive in their confinement; but 
being kept damp with the rains, and wanting a free, airy, full 
sun all the growing months of summer, they bien and at 
last all died. 
A better fate has hitherto attended «thé other fine par- 
cel of Suey Bain &c., brought over at the same time by Sir 
*]I ls knew the gentleman here alluded to, Dr. Hancock of Salisbury, who as- 
sured me of this fact ; and a drawing showing both the fruits on the same branch i is now 
in the possession of H. P. Wyndham, Esq., of Salisbury. 
Dr. Hancock told me that he had the tree taken up to send to the "i of pia : 
but it was killed by RT: 
s Robert 
