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PBUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 345
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" " ——"" The Walnut Traces Its Noble Gen...
trary true cayed th to and at tlie the rotten oak beam , it with will s made in make ; but of a this chestnut fair is show in some tree outwardl have sort recompensed this y wlien propert it is y , , if all that it de be - ,
being of ger the by baths somewhat a certain of Antandro crackling brittle , they , whose so as g , ive it roof is warning said was , to laid have and with premoni frightened this sh material those the dan out . " -
Another and a better compensation , for this early rotting of the living tree is that the timber , if insect cut while will touch sound , the will leaves never become though
the worm nut -eaten is , and liable scarc to ely the any attack of a kind of weevil , the , eggs of which very deposited in the fruitinvolving the need of
careare young , ful chestnuts _insxDection sent to when Mr . Loudon selecting as them seed to nuts plant from . the Twice celebrated were some tree times
found at Vermont on arrival , planted to have by been Washing insect ton -pierce , but d , and both consequentl they y n were ever
vegetated In its choice . of soil this tree seems particularly judicious in fixing Wherever
on I have the localities seen chestnut where trees it is , " most says likel Bosc y , to be and welcome I have . in seen '' soils them in
a great many different localities , they were never or on surfaces Switzerland fit for and the Ital production wherever of chestnut corn . On beg mountain ins corn s leaves in France off . " ,
speciall lombrosa Forming y dear a consist striking , to Salvator feature y stl , of Rosa in its wild , foliage and scenery the famous In , the Eng chestnut land " leave it s is tree in chiefl Val was y -
from The grown deep four in l " y to hop serrated six countie inches mo , pale s in or y leng green around th shining but orchards on leaves young . , especiall are shoots , o y in they old Devonshire trees are , often only .
fact nearl , y that a foot in both long and wild three and or cultivated four , inches varieties broad , and they it always is a singular grow broader in English as compared with French trees , a peculiarit trees y
which has been noticed in the leaves of some other kinds of likewiseIn France there are two very distinct varieties of the
chestnut . , les _cJiataignes and the les ma crab rrons is , to the the former le being the marron to the
latter , says Loudon , what app , being At Tortworth vastly superior in Gloucestershire in both size and there flavor is . a chestnut reckoned to
measurement back be both its the orig largest in of _, to its the trunk and heptarchic oldest at a tree hei days , ht in of Eng of six Saxon land feet , tradition from Egbert the , carry and ground ing the g
amounting to rather more than forty-five feet . ticular A similar localities position in to that is held which in the some chestnut parts of occup the New ies in World
par-Europe times by the also juvia i _3 rettil tree , termed which furnishes the almonds what of the are Amazon called brazil . The nuts gathering , somey
la of fiesta these nuts cle las is juvias celebrated , something among , similar the Indian to our s by harvest a festival home called , but roasted dancing
signalised by great excesses , feasting on monkeys ,
Pbuits In Their Season. 345
PBUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 345
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/57/
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