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FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 417
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Summer's Light Fruits Have Long Since Fl...
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g with lobe clusters shining of pearl and among amber flowers g , ossy sending forth an odor that never tree is cloys the . chosen Gratef ornament ul to every of sense courtl , no halls marvel and that palatial the orange plea - -
sauncesand thatas Dr . Siclder observes y , in laying out royal or noble gardens , , an , orangery is felt to be the first necessit and statues y , and it is
only when this is provided for that even fountains are probabl thoug The ht tree y of still . attains in existence sometimes at Versailles to a very which great was age the known ; rei there of by is that one the
name of Francis I ., having been taken during gn perty monarch in from 1523 the after Const it able had de been Bourbon in the on possession the seizur of e of his his famil pro y -
for some upwards have thoug of , eig ht ht that y years the . ori As g , inal however tree , must it has have now been a double cut the down stem old , ,
s and tock that There the present are some pair trees of trunks too , at are Cordova but new whicli shoots are from said to be
s ix o when r . seven diseased hundre become d years crusted o , ld , but with which a kind have of begun lichen to supposed decay ,
from to be other peculiar . lants to the orange was un . f The ortuna tree tely is , proved liable , too when , to take the orange disease
trees strange at insect Fayal p which were remed , comp attacked b letel ein , y about to destroye cut ten down d years a large the ago tree number , by as soon a new of as them and the ,
the disease earth onl whence y showed effectual new itself and , leaving health y y g shoots only the would stump then covered grow up over . It -with first _,
he _aj ) peared had , had in an the importation gardens of of the trees American from his consul native , immediatel been country thus p y lanted intro after
thereand no doubt was entertained of its having - it A duced zores should , ; , but in reach great it spread them alarm so , and p rap laced thoug idly Fayal all h very over in strenuous the a sort island of efforts quarantine that were the made other , lest
to overcome the evil ; , its effects are by no means yet recovered from . what is table and in street
Accustomedfrom seen on every every of and that shop " , oblate to associate , heroid with " the with name which of geograp orange onl hers y the deli regular ght to illus form - sp
trate sented the for fi the gure first of this time our would earth be , likel any y one to be to whom rather they astonished were pre , on - of the curious objects
which being called figure upon in the to g illustrations ive that title to l to M diversified many . llisso ' s in elaborate formstained work . in colorand most strang ; ,
Variegated striped , ribbed like the , else melon in , ature nippled adhering y like the lemon together ; horned and growing , as it is
called each , like other nothing like the two " n halves ; " of a cottage loaf ; or within each . upon
Fruits In Their Season. 417
FRUITS IN THEIR _SEASON . 417
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 417, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/57/
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