Reportedly brought the mandarin from Tangier, Morocco, and established it at Palatka, Florida.
According to Hodgson's 1967 account, citing Ziegler and Wolfe (1961), a mandarin tree was reportedly introduced from Tangier and planted at Palatka, Florida, by Major Atway. The account does not establish the tree's date of arrival or the cultivar's original geographic origin.
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