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Carew, at Beddington in Surrey. These trees are mentioned 

 by Bishop Gibson, in his additions to Camden's * Britannia/ 

 as having existed for a hundred years previous to 1695 ; but 

 finally they were entirely killed by the great frost of 1739-40, 

 after they had attained the height of 18 feet, with stems 

 9 inches in diameter. Trees of the orange tribe naturally 

 live to a very great age in a soil and climate which suit them. 

 Even under artificial treatment there are some remarkable 

 instances of their longevity. There may be seen in the 

 orangery at Versailles a tree which was sown in 1421. It is 

 growing with its roots in a large box, and appeared very 

 healthy when we saw it lately (about 1866). The orange- 

 tree at the convent of St. Sabina at Rome is thirty-one feet 

 high, and said to be upwards of 600 years old. At Nice, 

 where the tree may be considered naturalized, growing quite 

 in the open air, there was in 1789, according to Risso, a tree 

 which generally bore 5,000 or 6,000 oranges, and which was 

 more than 50 feet high, with a trunk which required two men 

 to embrace it. In Cordova, the noted seat of Moorish 

 grandeur and luxury in Spain, there are orange trees still 

 remaining, which are considered to be 600 or 700 years old." 

 "Under favourable circumstances the productiveness of 

 the orange is astonishing. In an account of the gardens and 

 orange grounds of St. Michael's, in the Azores, by Mr. 

 Wallace (Journal of the Hort. Soc., vii. 236), we are informed 

 by the author, who resided at St. Michael's for several years, 

 that the orange grounds vary from I to 60 acres in extent, 

 and are surrounded by high walls and tall-growing trees as 

 shelter, not from the cold but from the sea-breeze. The 

 grounds are rarely occupied wholly by orange-trees, for limes, 

 citrons, lemons, guavas, &c., are scattered about in them. 

 Orange-trees were first introduced into the Azores by the 

 Portuguese. There are only two kinds of oranges cultivated 

 at St. Michael's, viz., the Portugal and the Mandarin. Many 

 varieties of the former exist, and they are greatly improved 

 by the genial climate of St. Michael's. The Mandarin orange 

 has not been many years in the island, nevertheless, there 

 are some trees of it 14 feet high. This capital little orange 

 has lately been exported to England, where it realizes a 

 higher price than the common St. Michael's. The largesf 



