1 76 Fruits and Fruit- Trees. 



peel from what part of the world it has arrived, and are 

 always glad to pay a higher price for that received from 

 CuraQoa. 



Orange-dulcamara, as it would be better called, seeing 

 that " marmalade " it is not* is at once the pleasantest 

 and most healthful conserve put on the table. That 

 found in the shops is manufactured principally in Scot- 

 land. In a single establishment in Dundee, the quantity 

 made every day during the season of greatest activity, 

 say the close of winter and the spring, is not less than 

 two thousand five hundred pounds weight. After meet- 

 ing the home demand, vast quantities are shipped to 

 America, Australia, and the East and West Indies. 

 Much goes also to continental Europe, for even Spain, 

 Portugal, and Italy are glad to get their Seville oranges 

 back from England in the charmingly transformation 

 state of " marmalade." 



The Sweet orange is thought to have originated in 

 countries farther to the east than those from which the 

 Bitter was received China, probably, and Cochin China, 

 whence it would seem to have travelled into India about 

 the beginning of the Christian era. When first seen in 

 Europe is uncertain ; probably it was some time about 

 the middle of the thirteenth century, five hundred years 

 after the appearance of the Bitter, and much more than 

 a thousand after the coming of the citron. Opinions 

 differ as to the route by which it came. Some incline to 

 Persia and Syria : perhaps it was introduced direct from 



* Marmalade proper is made from quinces. See p. 45. 



