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    414 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON.

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    Summer's Light Fruits Have Long Since Fl...

    fine as any from _Portugal . ; and Loudqn asserts very confidently that in other localities " with a little care and without the _exj _3 ense

    of glass they could be , grown against hollow walls , heated by flues , and protected by straw mats . " The largest trees in . Britain are

    those of _Smorgony in Glamorganshire , said to have been procured from a wreck on the neighboring coast , in the time of Henry VII .

    They are planted on the floor of an immense conservatory , and bear abundantly , _fortunatelythoughfor " the million"

    lovers every one of them , we are , not left , to depend upon the , orange efforts of scientific gardeners in an unsuitable climate for our supply of

    this _^ universal favorite , but -can obtain a sufficient response to our largest demands by means of importation . The best are

    brought from the Azores , where they were originally introduced oranges by the Portuguese , but Spain , Portugal , and other countries contribute

    their share to swell the mighty tide which pours into Britain . The total quantity cannot be ascertained with perfect exactitude , as

    oranges and lemons are reckoned together in the revenue returns , but in 1857 it was considered that not less than 692842 bushels

    paying a duty of eightpenee per bushel , were annually imported , ; and , Carpenter reckons that we receive numerically about 272000000

    ,, a year , giving an average of nearly a dozen to each individual of the population .

    The various names applied to the orange—the Citrus aurantium or Hesperidce of _Linnsean botany—have given rise to much discussion .

    Citrum was a name given by the Romans to a kind of gourd , still called by the French citrouilleand the words citrinus and citrinaas

    epithets , were used for many , fruits after they had been adopted , * to express the pale yellow tint proper to the citron , a fruit which was

    known in classic days , and was introduced into Italy ten centuries before the orangeto which it bears a certain familresemblance

    though not a very , close one . Aurantium seems to be y formed from , aureum , alluding to the golden color of the fruit ; malum aureum was

    looked on as a synonym of the malum Hesperidum of the ancients , * enoug and the h . * transition It is rather from fallacious aurantium however to orange to seek in appears classic language plausible

    the derivation of the names of objects , unknown , to those who spoke it . "We should rather seek light in the East , and there we find

    that lemon and orange trees are known in India by the names of lemoen and naregan , while Hindostanee dictionaries give the word

    narendj as still being , the Hindoo name for our golden-robed friends . From narendj , thenmust have come the Latin airangiafterwards

    modified into aurantium , , whence the English and French , derived their orangethe Spaniards their naranxaand the Italians their

    , , , d * The district in France which gave its , name to the Netherlandish

    ynasty , was known to the Romans under the name of Arausioafterwards to changed be altered to Orange in the ; but same why it received as was the the name former of name the , fruit or how the , this writer came of way

    this article , after much research , has been unable to ascertain . ,

    414 Fruits In Their Season.

    414 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 414, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/54/