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had always found it fruit very freely and grow to a large size, 

 some attaining to as much as eight inches in diameter. He con- 

 sidered the Citron a very useful fruit to grow, as it could be 

 preserved in all stages of its growth, either as small green thin- 

 nings from the trees, or when nearly fall-grown, but still green, or 

 when fully ripe. He considered the home-grown specimens pro- 

 duced far better "peel" than the ordinary " Citron-peel " of 

 commerce, while the marmalade made from either green or ripe 

 fruits was, in his opinion, far superior to Orange marmalade, 

 although he admitted it might be a somewhat acquired taste ; 

 but in any case the Citron, he thought, was far less grown in this 

 country than its merits deserved. 



Sir John Llewelyn said that it might be interesting if he 

 stated that there were some very fine Citron-trees in Glamorgan- 

 shire whose history was somewhat remarkable. The trees were 

 being brought by sea from Spain as a present to King William III. 

 when the ship was wrecked on the coast of Wales, and the trees, 

 after being washed ashore, were carried up to Margam, where a 

 house was built to put them in. Soon after, the story having gone 

 abroad, the trees were claimed by the Crown, and the claim was 

 duly allowed — that there the trees were, and the Crown could have 

 them by fetching them ; but this the Crown has never done, and 

 there at Margam they are flourishing to this day, and very fine 

 trees they are. With regard to the antiquity of the Citron, Sir 

 John had seen the drawings at Karnak, and he had no doubt Dr. 

 i Jonavia was right in his recognition of them ; but he would suggest 

 that the occurrence of these fruits in pictures in the tombs was 

 no proof that the tree was grown in Egypt, as most of the things 

 figured were of foreign origin brought into Egypt from countries 

 which had been conquered by the Egyptian kings, and therefore 

 finding the Citron on these historic pictures raised a presumption 

 in his mind that it was regarded as somewhat of a curiosity rather 

 than that it formed any part of the ordinary produce of the gardens 

 of the laud. 



