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    FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 419

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    Summer's Light Fruits Have Long Since Fl...

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    or three smaller fruits , more or less formed were growing out of the summit variegated of the larger with patches one ; another of white , the while Bicolor the , fruit the leaves is marked of which with

    are , colored stripes , first green then red , and having the further peculiarity that the vesicles of essential oil upon those stripes The are con Bi cave ,

    dier while violette on the has other some part of of its the leaves fruit they and are some convex of its . flowers gara of a - colorthe flowers

    rich which viole , grow t hue from , the , the others axil of being a green of the leaf ordinary being white , , while those The

    fruit which too spring which from proceed the base from of the a violet latter , one partake are vi of olet this also tint . , until

    they , have , nearly attained their full growth , when they turn yellow and ripen like the others . Plants been of obtained this species from are cuttings now not from uncom the

    ori des mon ginal Plantes at Paris , and , for but but a they thoug long have h time all the eas onl to y cultivate one of the as kind the , common in the Jardin sort ,

    it a hi for gh their price _choicest ; has been bouquets maint as , ained and y sell for it it by under the the florists name , wh of Herma reserv le e -

    p as hrodite soon as . they An attempt appeared has to been force made the whole , by ni p pp lant ing to the become green violet aves

    -, colored But the , but most it lias curious proved of all a curious failure . oranges—nay , it might almost be dom

    saidtne most extraordinary production of the vegetable king , — is years the , a Bi marvel garadier and bizarrerie a mystery , the , of till orig Pierr in of e which dissertation Nato , remained a Florentine at Florence for thirty phy in

    sician 1674 , made who m known ade it the that . . subject the tree which a public bore it was simply a seedling , which , lected the gardener to re-graft in whose after grounds his first it had operation been raised upon , it had had forgotten failed .

    or Left neg thus to itselfthe fruit , it brought forth was so different to anynotice thing that he had gained ever , large been sums seen befor bselling e , that cuttings it soon from attracted itand its wishin owner' g s

    for fame ; as well as fortunetook y credit for having produced , such wonderful effects by Ms own to , disclose special skill the and hole exertions truth , Trees until at of this last

    with strange Nato thorns prev variet ailed violet y up have on -colored him some of or _tl green _jeir branches ; the w leaves smooth are , indiscriminatel some . garnished y

    long winged and ; the short , flowers , smooth are -ed sometimes ged or indente all white the d , fruit and , sometimes their which petiole follows only s naked a portion less or

    than are white four time and or sweet five the species rest pink are bitter ; while ming ones in led , citrons the same and tree limes bearing , interspersed no at the

    the with one same , same perhaps fruits mixture made , "being oranges in up half alternate of some orange , quarters or and all of half , or these ei bi g garade hths in , different , and h or the so citron on proportions elements , in , another almost of , endless varietIt seemsin shortas thoug

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    Fruits In Their Season. 419

    FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 419

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 419, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/59/