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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ortions of southern Europe by the sameagency as it seemed to follow the spreadof Mohammedan conquest and civiliza-tion. Thus in the twelfth century we findthat the bitter Orange was a commonlycultivated tree in all the Levant coun-tries. There is no reference to the sweetOrange in the literature of this time andit must have been introduced at a laterperiod. It was certainly cultivated inItaly as early as the sixteenth century. In more recent years the cultivation ofthe various varieties has spread through-out the world wherever the climate andthe conditions of the soil will permit theripening of the fruit. Risso, in his valuable history of theOrange family, enumerates one hundredand sixty-nine varieties with distinctcharacteristics. Of these he classes for-ty-three under the Citrus aurantium. Besides the sweet and bitter varietiesthe more common ones are the MandarinOrange of China, a flat and spheroidalfruit the rind of which easily separatesfrom the pulp; the Tangerine, which is 134
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LIBRARYWNIVtRatt W iLUNUISURMNA very fragrant and originally derived fromthe Mandarin, and the Maltese or BloodOrange, commonly grown in southernItaly and notable for its deep red pulp.There are many other varieties that beargeographical or local names. Few forms of plant life present to thebeholder more beautiful characteristicsthan an Orange tree in full bearing. Such a tree, in addition to the unripe and ripeyellow fruit has also numerous whiteflowers, which give off their wonderfulperfume, and its symmetrically arrangedbranches are covered with rich darkgreen leaves. It is a tree that appealsnot alone to the sense of taste but to theesthetic nature as well. THE MUSICAL SWAN. (Cygnus musicus.) What moonlit glades, what seas,Foam-edged, have I not known!Through ages hath not flownMine ancient song with gathered music sweet—By fanes oerthrown, By cities known of old, and classic woods, And, strangely sad, in deep-leaved northern solitudes? If those living Avian gems aglowamid the t

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