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    FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 341

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    " " ——"" The Walnut Traces Its Noble Gen...

    is the no nut trace is strong in those ly impregnated of the sweet with kind prussic althoug acid h it , is of found which in there the

    barkleavesand flowersof both . Pleasant , as a flavoring when result employed , from in inadvertentl , minute quantities , using in , very excess injurious so powerful effects an ingredient sometimes ;

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    of as indul told by gers Pliny as dinner —that -p if ills Rve are of by th another em be take , if the n inebriation by tale a were person believed in before

    firmation sitting down of which to drink is cite , he d will the account be proof g against iven by Plutarch of ; Drusus con- , drinkers of his time

    who the iven brother used to the them of assertion Tiberius effectuall b , y one the for circumstance of this the purpose greatest of . its Some being countenance known that is , y

    g almonds were held in special favor by the monks of old , at whose festivalstooalmond milksomething very similar to our modern

    custard There , , was is a , always pretty allusion a standing , to the dish blossoming . of the almond in one

    of Moore ' s verses" The hope i of hts a future happier brow hour

    Springs That al out g of the on misery silvery ' almond , flower That blooms on a leafless bough . "

    hard But wh to y tell the since epithet white " silvery flowers " should are by no have means been characteristic selected seems of

    ti the nged species with , , p the ink . blossoms The same being difficult almost y would universall seem y to more apply or to less the

    metap says— hor _" And of the Solomon almond , wh tree en , shall as illustrating flourish eastern , " one E almond ccles sign . xii of tree . 5 old — which b age ut that , he is

    there is one variety , the Orientalis _, or -, noted of the for leaves the and peculiarl which y white the sage and may glistening very probabl or silvery y have appearance had in

    his mindwhen , he selected this tree to symbolize the hoary hairs , of Eld

    tion Althoug in . our h climate it will ripen the in tree Eng therefore land , the fruit is onl never y cultivated attains for perfec the - ;

    sake of its ornamental appearance , and the unproductive kinds are than generall those y preferred of the , fruit since bearers the flowers When of the grafted barren on are a more plum showy stock ,

    . the usual mode of treatmentthe almond will grow to a height of twenty of or thirty where feet it , but bears it attains freel , far thoug loftier h probabl proportions y never in the subjecte south d

    Europe , y , that to the if singular hole be dressing made in recommended the tree and by a stone Pliny introduced , who informs its fer us

    a tility is much increased , a statement which that a this modern manure her ' -

    monger stone must mig have ht take been advantage a coprolite of ! to It insist is very closely related philosop to the s

    Fruits In Their Season. 341

    FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 341

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 341, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/53/