research by Charlie London
Times Picayune
December 10, 1873
There has been placed on on our desk one of the finest oranges we have ever seen. It comes from the orchard of Albert P. Raux, Esq., situation at the intersection of Grand Route and Bayou St. John. It is a beauty in appearance: had a soft, smooth, thin skin, and measures fifteen inches in circumference.
Mr. Raux has sent several of the oranges of the tree from which the one on our desk was plucked to agricultural and other journals in the North.
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