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    Give me sunshine

    Dec 08, 2021 3 minutes

    IT is not difficult to understand what prompted Cosimo de’ Medici to start his family’s celebrated collection of citrus. The scent of orange blossom, the sharpness of a fresh lemon or the sweet juice of mandarin newly picked from the tree, together with the beauty of their jewel-like fruits sparkling against evergreen foliage, make the citrus family without equal among fruit trees. Six hundred years after de’ Medici was seduced by citrus trees, we continue to prize them.

    ‘The scent, juice and beauty make the citrus family without

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