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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-Avork 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, although 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 languished, and at 

 last all died. 



A better fate has hitherto attended the other fine par- 

 cel of orange-trees, &c., brought over at the same time by Sir 



* I well 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 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 Earl of Harburgh, 

 but it was killed by removing.— A. B.L. • 



Robert 



