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Show Oranges. Careful research has shown that In all probability the original home of tho orange was the Burmese peninsula and southern China. It was from India In-dia that the orango went to Europe. They still grow wild in that country in many localities. Cultivated from a remote period In Hindustan, the fruit was carried to southwestern Asia by the Arabs about tho beginning of the ninth century. It was cultivated In Arabia In the tenth century. Through the agency of the Arabs it Bpread ultimately ul-timately to Africa and Spain. |