9191 Orange

Orange TAP9191

Fully Woven Size 144 x 70
cms (56 x 27 inches)

The sweet delicious juicy
orange eaten all around
the world was born a sour
fruit, growing wild in China.
Dating back thousands of
years, the orange was
probably being cultivated
by the Chinese by 2500
BC. Eventually the
Romans, always in the
market for exotic produce,
obtained oranges the hard
way---after long sea
voyages from India which
finally brought young trees
into the Roman port of
Ostia, probably in the first
century AD. After the fall
of Rome in the 5th c. AD,
orange raising and
importing both died out for
centuries.