Daonuote 14, 18744 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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‘that the value of hed imported during 1 1873 added that Orange trees are still 
amounted £1,120, 309—appear to have been brought | as hemos ‘of this. It is, arai ener art ears 
from India to Arabia, Syria, and Egypt, in the | authority that an Orange tree was hinted about 
nge 
or tenth century, and were introduced to | 1200 by St. Dominic in ey 
ninth y means of the Crusaders and the | St. Sabina at Rome; pA ogee pipa a seis og Be 
trade connection between Italy and the East. They | of it, still exists, or did « exist until y. It 
not commonly grown in ‘on nd the South of | was introduced to England about 1596, having been 
= France before the fourteenth century. The bitter | brought from It Sir Francis Carew, or 
Orange was the one first introduced, and the sweet another tradition stat m th e 
Orange did not make its appearance in Europe of the first Oranges brought into England by his uncle, 
1 f Syria, or | Sir Walter R t trees existing in our 
was bro! y the Portuguese from India or China, | country are p bably those at Suorgony, in Glamor- 
jg not certain, althou e finding of sweet Oranges | ganshire, which produce abundan fruit, and are sai 
in Sy y s e “ach proin is pee om entioned in date from the time of I e men- 
says :— ) 
uA a of the European, Sanskrit, and Arabic | Standing 120 years, large and goodly trees.” This 
pames of the Citron, Orange, and Lemon, confirms the | note is of the year 1700, and would make the grt vd 
- result of historical Tesearch regarding the spread of their | the introduction of Orange tin to England so 
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, me of = Citron ME an what 
_ Went E Gao the time of Alexand r the | to were killed by — covets frost of 
į 4 iv. . ng 
Median _— and was afterwards called Citrus, | teenth century; Queen Henrietta 
tin term or #édprs, by which the ees Juniper, orangery at Wimbledon ; and Eve 
other ; erous woods gathered pogo Oran 
as good, age se 
pposed to possess the y, Of keep- | Some very fine Orange eels near Milis, in Sardinia, 
, panang ny tha | which are more than 6 feet in girth, and said to be 
had a Sanskrit | 700 years old. , ae 
i ieties of the Orange are very erous 
Nagaran aA aa ai is oaa ma mi that any ep a at a Beactiption 
travelled in Asia in 1520; and it is Span Wag wio 
ence. The m 
inent of Mn A 
servya was a certain | | 
had an Orange i goatee 
greatly prized that a special was k 
attend to it, who was forbidd 1 gardener was kept to to 
= miesi of its blossoms, fruit, or cuttings, The F French 
o had desired a cutting or a 
yoa plant, discovered one TS the ener’s 
n was red of a certain beautiful damsel, that 
“ the att t was mutual,” and that the want of 
= happiness. He therefore bribed young gar- 
er handsomely to obtain a plant for ters who did 
my and at the same tinte secured a branch of 
with which his his betrothed adorned her dark hair at the 
however, made so favoura 
monarch that he graciously frekan ve we the 
offender, and of course ‘they all lived ever 
after.” B. M. 
TRANSMUTATION OF WHEAT. 
Aa abeel v raaa bee Soo nd harma (or oa at Mr. 
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rome as ‘‘ R.” evidently does those of the toad and 
such 
snake, e mischief likely to result 
a communication is in fact that as 
to t oad, the snake, and the 
ment professes to be b on the personal obser- 
vations of Mr. Meehan himself, wh ust 
le to speak to three such apparent marvels as havin: 
fallen giaa pe limits of his own personal 
, most admit it to 
that "as to the ahs it was “fon rdi ipee evi- 
dence before the American Association admitted as 
eara rag 8 Again, with respect to the Wheat- 
Bro Bh i : 
: hemi he says “‘the most careful 
real both by himself and aa aided by 
ket glasses, had failed to detect any su such union. 
Tength faith bi bal diego 
here at (althoug isposed to | 
day with your leave), of a spike of Barley having 
ought to me, with portions of 
were on sale in tl university to of Cam 
and if I had only seen the Photograph (which 
startlin ee and not requested to omk te to 
examine the original nen the farmer who showed 
cw 
quiries 
discovery of the theft. The beauty o of the young bride, 
le the ` 
om 
considered a fortunate man indeed if he have been 
ab g 
to relate 
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