270 HISTORY OF FRUITS. 



Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles the First, had an 

 orange-house and orange-garden at. her mansion, Wim- 

 bleton Hall, in the parish of Wimbleton, in the county 

 of Surrey ; and by an estimate and survey which was 

 made in the month of November 1649, for the sale of 

 that property, by order of the Parliament, we find how 

 highly orange-trees were estimated even in those turbulent 

 days. It is described as follows : 



" In the north side of which sayd oringe-garden, there 

 stands one large garden-house; the outwalls of brick, 

 fitted for the keepinge of cringe-trees, neatly covered 

 with blue slate> and ridged and guttered with lead ; the 

 materials of which house, with the greate doores, and 

 the iron thereof, with a certeine stone pavement lying 

 before these doores, in nature of a little walke, four 

 foote broad, and seventy-nine foote long, wee valew to 

 bee worth 66L 13s. 4d. 



" In which sayd garden-house there are now standing, 

 in squared boxes fitted for that purpose, fortie-two 

 oringe trees bearing fayre and large cringes, which trees, 

 with the boxes, and the earth and materials therein feed- 

 ing the same, wee valew at ten poundes a tree, one tree 

 with another, in to to, amounting unto 4201. 



" In the sayd garden-house there now allsoe is one 

 lemon-tree, bearing greate and very large lemons, which, 

 together with the box that it grows in, and the earth and 

 materialls therein feeding the same, wee valew at 20/. 



" In the sayd garden-house there now allsoe is one 

 pome-citron-tree, which, togeather with the box that it 

 growes in, and the earth and materialls feeding the same, 

 wee valew at 10/. 



" There are also belonginge to the said oringe-garden 

 six pomegranet-trees, bearing faire and large fruits, 

 which, togeather with the square boxes they growe in, 



