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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8374, 30 September 1890, Page 6

Planters of orange groves sometimes question the age they may attain. There is every assurance that with care and health orange trees will live many generations. According to a note in the June issue of the Revue de l'Horticulture Belve et Etrangere, there is in the gardens of the palace at Versailles an orange tree more than 450 years old. It is said to have been tho first introduced into France, and is known as the "Great Constable." The seeds from which it grew were sown at Pampelune, about 1416, by El6onor of Castile, wife of Charles the Third, King of Navarre. Later the tree was brought to Chantilly, then to Fontairiebleau, and finally, in 1684, was added to the collection of Versailles. The handsomest orange trees grown in tubs in France are those in this collection and in those of the gardens of the Tuileries, and of the Luxembourg Palace in Paris. The gardens of the Palace of ('ompifegne still contain the fifty large specimens b ught during the reign of Napoleon There are also collections of these curi a old orange trees supposed to be sovera' centuries old in a number of private gardens belonging to various French chateaus. They are always carefully tended, and produce year after year surprising crops of flowers and a good deal of fruit, considering how long their roots have been cramped within narrow quarters.

The Medical Annual advises practitioners to remember that when recommending Cocoa as a food and beverage for invalids, the name Cadbury on any packet of Cocoa is a guarantee of purity. Cadbory s Cocoa.—" A Cocoa of the highest degree of Purity and Nutritive value. — Health.