AN ANCIENT TREE.
-Amost ancient arid respectable inhabitant of Versailles has recently given up the ghost. This is an orange tree more then, four centuries old, far older than the chateau, and as old as the family that built it. The Queon of Navarre gave the prieinal orange pip to her gardener in 1421; he sowed it at Pampeluna; from there the orange tree was moved in the days of its youth to Chantilly, where it was the property of the Constable de Bourbon, whence its name of "le Grand Constable" Francis I. seized it and transferred the tree-to Fontainbleau, when its master turned traitor and went over to Charles V. Louis XIV. transferred it to Versailles, where it has survived some half dozen revolutions, two or three invasions, and nearly two hundred, winters. But the third republic has been more than it could bear, and, it has died without giving any previous signs of ill health.—New York World.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2498, 8 January 1877, Page 3
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159AN ANCIENT TREE. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2498, 8 January 1877, Page 3
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