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FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON*.. 411
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Summer's Light Fruits Have Long Since Fl...
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records prevailed , of A for pician when banquets the Crusaders . It is true invaded that a S contrary yria they op found inion long this
. frui and t d so azzled abundant ; bits bri there ht that hue they concluded believed at once it mus that t be it must indigenous be the ,
famous impos , ed " a golden name y app upon le g " it of , accordin Greek , fable gly ; and and of then Hebrew , with Scri supreme pture ;
prove disregard its identity to log . ical It consis was not tency until , argued the year from 1811 this that very its name history to Traite du Citrus *
published was first carefull at Paris y , traced a work , when of grea Galessio t learning , in his in and " 1036 research , the demon first , -
wri s trated f I ter ndia who that t distinctl the unnoticed Arabian y mentions b Avicenna _Nearchus the , who orange died . the Indisputabl productions , -was y a of that tive among
part Galessio of the , ye believes _eoxintry that which the y was Arabs conquered found it by when Alexander they penetrated the Great , reachedand
farther into the interior than the Son of Ammon had , luxury in ci sen tron the t a rather ; tenth present In century than 1002 of " the p Leon oma enriched citron ci d' t O rina itself stie the , " writes gardens in to terpreted the , t Norman ha of t Oman a to P be rince princes a with fruit of this who S like alerno new had the
, delivered them from the Saracens . Avicenna , however , speaks more plainly , describing unmistakabl used medicinall y the oil of oranges and "Vitry of orange his - '
torian seeds , of as the pre thirteenth parations century , who accompanied y . Jacques the Crusaders , an in - Palestineafter describing the lemon and citron _foimd there , says ,
that of or which acrid in the , the rind same cold ) is country part the leas ( or are t pul consi seen p , in d another era con bl t radis , sp being t e cies tion of of citron an the acid app " hot and les " ,
was disagreeable submitted taste to . the Th palate at it of was Maitre , perhaps Jacques , an unri , ma p y frui accoun t w t hich for These leshe
his continues pronouncing / are by * the such fourteenth natives a verdict called concerning " oranges wrote . " it . history Nicholas of app S Sicil pecialis , in ,
recoun again , ti who n , the in devastations the of the century Duke , of Calabria a in the environs y , of Palermo g remarksthat he did not even spare the trees of acid
embellishe apples , called d , the by the gardens , people of Seville " the aran royal gi , " which palace wer from . e The at ancient first bitter the times variety widest had , hcalled by us
fifteenth sp owever read and , century now most no kno passage wn in in Euro history oranges pe ; for refers , from to the the sweet tenth orange to the ,
than all writers to the mentioning tasteand the Galessio fruit as believes one more that p the leasant two kinds to the , ori sig g ht i-;
nalldistinct' travelled by different routes , and that they were broug y ht by the , Arabs through Egypt and the north of Africa 2 ¦ to _s r
Fruits In Their Season*.. 411
FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON * .. 411
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 411, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/51/
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