174' ORANGE CULTURE IN FLORIDA. 



bought at Nice twenty plants of orange trees. 

 (Hist, of Dauphiny, bk. 2, p. 271.) 



From Naples and Sicily the orange and lemon 

 trees must have been carried into the Roman States, 

 into Sardinia and Corsica, and to Malta. The 

 islands of the Archipelago perhaps first received 

 them, because, belonging in great part to the 

 Genoese and Venetians, it is probable they were 

 the intermediate points whence the Crusaders of 

 Genoa and Venice transported the plants to their 

 homes. From these isles the trees afterward 

 spread into the delightful coast of Salo on the 

 shores of Lake Garda, where, in Gallo's time 

 (1559), they were regarded as acclimated from 

 time immemorial. Finally, the orange and the 

 lemon penetrated into the colder latitudes, and per- 

 haps one owes to the desire of enjoying their flow- 

 ers and fruit the invention of hot-houses, afterward 

 called orangeries. (The name of orangerie is a 

 modern word in the French language. Olivier de 

 Serre does not use it he calls this kind of in- 

 closure orange-houses (p. 633). The Italian lan- 

 guage has no word responding precisely to 

 orangery. We find in some modern authors, 

 equivalent words, such as aranciera, cedroniera, 

 citronera. (Fontana, Dizionario rustico, bk. i, p. 

 74.) But the ancient writers styled these places 

 for preserving these trees by the phrase, * ' Stanzone 

 per i cedri. ' ' In Tuscany and the Roman States 

 they call them rimesse. In other places they are 



