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The Orange. 



England by Sir Walter Raleigh;* and it is added 

 that Sir Francis Carew, who married the neice of Sir 

 Walter, planted their seeds, and they produced the . 

 orange trees at Beddington, in Surrey, of which 

 Bishop Gibson, in his additions to Camden's Bri- 

 tannia, speaks as having been there for a hundred 

 years previous to 1695. As these trees always pro- 

 duced fruit, they could not, as Professor Martyn 

 justly observes, have been raised from seeds; but 

 they may have been brought from Portugal, or from 

 Italy, (the place whence orange-trees have usually 

 been obtained,) as early as the close of the sixteenth 

 century. The trees at Beddington were planted in 

 the open ground, with a moveable cover to screen 

 them from the inclemency of the winter months. In 

 the beginning of the eighteenth century they had 

 attained the height of eighteen feet, and the stems 

 were about nine inches in diameter; while the spread 



* Biographia Britannica; Art. Raleigh. 



