A most ancient and respectable inhabitant of Versailles has recently given up the ghost. This is an orange tree than four centuries old, far older than the chateau, and as old as the family that built it. The Queen of the original orange pip to in
fHs iowatt id at Pamptaltttis*; frotn Prat QSMi&i tru« mown! in th© of its yniif.h t»> Chan titty, where it WW Shu pf<>pi.>n.y of *h«> C'-nsHafcta «ie Bourbon, vvliviico t?» <•( "Lk ffpatnl Constable" Ej'tnoi.-) t. Si'ixu'l it axvl tnvnsfMi'i'iwii ftlio tcwo ti> >nfcaint >te ao» wheyt it* m.astei; iuraeti traitor f,.1- wuut ■■yix to (!!i;u-ius V. Lotib * trans"formi tfe tu Versailles*,. wh«re it has survived MO me haff tioitun revolutions,. two or t.hfnt: aiMi deartjr two htirulml winters. But the third republic has been more than it couldi bear, and it has died ■without giving any peoviotu signs of dl h«alth.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 237, 25 January 1877, Page 2
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