Chapter Ser>entfy. 



THE ORANGE AND ITS KINDRED. 



" Thus was this place 

 A happy rural seat of various view : 

 Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm ; 

 Others whose fruit, burnish'd with golden rind 

 Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, 

 If true, here only, and of delicious taste. " 



Paradise Lost. 



NE of the most pleasing emotions possible 

 to the human heart is that one called 

 gratitude. When and where most fittingly 

 rendered every man must judge for himself 

 every man has plenty of opportunities; but 

 assuredly among our benefactors none are 

 better entitled to kindly thought than the unknown ones 

 to whom we are indebted for the inestimable Orange. To 

 the thirsty and appreciative west, India, in the orange, 



