Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-07
ABOUT ORANGES.
The Sale OF the blossoms Grown at the
Tuilcrics.

A most interesting. sale, that of the
orange blossoms grown within the
Tuileries and Luxembourg orangeries
has lust taken place, ,as usual, under
the supervision of tho Director of the
Public Domains. In no CITY of the
world are those blossoms SO generally
employed as in Paris ; chemists use
every part Of pistil leaves and petals
for pharn nticalspurp1ses ;@perfum
ers extract an essen65 called 'ssPoftu-
gal" from the rind OF the fruit, and
distil the most delicate eau-de.heur
d'orange for the skin; confectioners
||alfDestrstheg buds over = With, su-
|1srs Sndssa employ II .SkatnE for
Fp&stnles; COOKS 7o~e The success of q
number Of !entremets toits flavor, and
many are the invalids who feel relieved
by the. soothing effects Of pFmge.Aower
ss; AZ s'sssSs i n7sssa ls%snses tes
that every other cottage in the villages
around 0rasse bears the sign OF IN
orange OF orange tres painted: over the
door, for every inhabitant either sells
or manufactures aSliquOf Or an essence
from the product Of the trees or flowers.
It has been remarked that nature was
never more bounteous than when she
|shovered down perfume on theValleys
and environs of Grasse, the streets Of
this busy little town being the filthiest
and narrowest of any in the south of
France.
Although the orange has cow become
as common fruit with us as the apple,
there is a poetic fancy connected with
Southern orange groves which our
Northern oranges do not inspire. The
Seville orange goes by the name OF
narlng, whence the Spanish naranga,
and our deriyate orange, bnt it is not a
native of SPAIN; The original orange
tree was conveyed, from India to Pales-
tine and Syria whence the crusaders
brought it to Marseilles with the april
cot and Damascus plum. The Genoese
were the first to discover its value as An
article of trade, and % early AZ 1886 ve
read of . prince purchasing orange
trees at Nice, but the oranges, sold
were the bitter and Intensely sour fruit,
which royalty, ia such distant days,
did not disdain to eat with salt.
| We read that Charles TX. of France
! wSo 2oVOAA0A0N ~ tu0 Vl0CAuOU0 0DO
beauty Of the orange forests of Hyeres.
The French called these Wild oranges
"brigadiers," just as they now call Che
Wild cherry bigarreau." :" The sweet
orange was first brought from China,
and tho earliest of them grew in Por-
tugal, Africa, and along the Medlter-
ranean, the Bidah and Maltese orange
soon becoming famous. There are four
historical orange trees-one at Nice, in
1779, which had attained the prodi.
gious height Of fifty feet, and under the
shade of which forty guests sat down
to table. An orange Is still shown ct
the Convent of st. Sabina, little way
outof Rome, which was planted by st.
Dominic, in 1860; there is another at the
Fund.- Monastery, Naples, planted by
st. Thomas d'Aquinas, and the fourth
is the Grand Bourbon, at the Yer
sailles Orangery. The history of the
Grand Bourbon is recorded in the
Royal archives, as follows: In 1921 a
Princess of Navarro planted within q
box in the garden of Pampeluna the
five small seeds of bitter orange. In
1899 Catherine do Folk, being DESTROYS
to offer to Anne de- Bretagne very
rare present, sent her the box in which
the five seeds had grown up and formed
five small orange trees; she also sent
the history Of their origin and culture.
In the course of time these trees came
down to the Constable de Bourbon,
who greatly priced them, and had them
transplanted, as his predeoessorl had
successfully done, and thus promoted
their growth. These angetreegWere
the pride of his gardens at the Chateau
de Chantelles- en- -Bourbonnais. When
Francis /. confiscated the property the
trees were earned to Fontainebleau.
We find them mentioned in Dan.
geau's Journal, under the date of 7th
of June, 1857: "Toward five this af
ternoon the KING went on foot to the
orangery, wither the fine orange trees
have been conveyed from Fontaine
bleau. The tree referred to In the
inventory of the Constable's posses
sions was put down as IN s.orange tree
with Eve branches, brought from Pam.
peluna." Three of these five stemt
have grown together, and form but one
trunk, but the other two part some
way up the trunk, and form two sepa
rate orange trees. ..as-
! One of the most singular botannica
facts related of any tree is that thu
same orange bush often contains flow
ers, green fruit and fully ripe fruit al
the same time, and few know that thil
it is which caused early poets to call il
the emblem of brides, "for," as says
an old Latin ohronicler, i" my bride
is my children's mother, 4 comel,
flower by the side of her small fruit.
Another curious fact in regard K
orange trees is that they can be trans
planted at any age, even very oil
trees. In tropical countries the bes
transplanting seasons are Decembe
and June, on account of the frequen
rains. There are several methods O
rearing sweet oranges. = Many plan
the seed and wait for five or seven year
before the fruit grows this is the long
slow way. The best is to obtain sou
orange trees of the proper size, ant
bud them with sweet orange buds i
the same way as peach trees. The OF
dinary time Of their bearing after tha
is three years. -
The limits of this paper do not ad
NIT of further detail on the sale of al
tifcial orange flowers in Paris, but thi
article nlone brings in several million
yearly, and employs many hundre
hands, both for manufacturing and. 81
portation. Kid, wax, and muslin ar
.. the materials employed with such raj
art and ingenuity.
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