. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . he fruit of which is much smaller than that ofthe citron or lemon, being only about an inch, or aninch and a half in diameter. The lime is not muchcultivated in Europe; but it is a great favourite inthe West Indies, being more acid and cooling thanthe lemon. In that country there is a sweet lime,intermediate between the lemon and the sour lime ;and botanical writers are of opinion that hybrids ormules are produced between all the varieties, andprobably also the species, of the citrons. The Orange i
. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . he fruit of which is much smaller than that ofthe citron or lemon, being only about an inch, or aninch and a half in diameter. The lime is not muchcultivated in Europe; but it is a great favourite inthe West Indies, being more acid and cooling thanthe lemon. In that country there is a sweet lime,intermediate between the lemon and the sour lime ;and botanical writers are of opinion that hybrids ormules are produced between all the varieties, andprobably also the species, of the citrons. The Orange is a taller and more beautiful tree thaneither the citron or the lemon; but, like them, it hasprickly branches when in its native country. Theorange was originally brought from India. The precise time at which the orange was intro-duced into England is not known with certainty, butprobably it may have taken place not long after theirintroduction into Portugal, which was in the earlypart of the sixteenth century. The first oranges, it is stated, were imported into 2 a 334 VEGETABLE The Orange^ Enp:laiid by Sir Walter Raleinh*; and it is addedthat Sir Francis Carew, who married the niece of SirWalter, planted their seeds, and they produced theorange-trees at Beddington, in Surrey, of whichBishop Gibson, in his additions to Camdens Bri-tannia, speaks as having been there for a hundredyears previous to 1695. As these trees always pro-duced fruit, they could not, as Professor Martyiijustly observes, have been raised from seeds; butthey may have been ^irought from Portugal, or fromItaly, (the place whence orange-trees have usuallybeen obtained,) as early as the close of the sixteenthcentury. The trees at Beddington were planted inthe open o-round, with a moveable cover to screenthem from the inclemency of the winter months. Inthe beginning of the eighteenth century they hadattained the height of eighteen feet, and the stemswere about nine inches in diameter; while the spr
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