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420 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON.
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Summer's Light Fruits Have Long Since Fl...
several different species were circulating- under the same bark , yet remaining * like oil and waterwithout the power to mixorat least , to
, , , , blend and unite ; each finds distinct and independent development as it can—not at stated times and distancesbut apparently quite
capriciously . Sometimes , branches covered with , the leaves , flowers , and fruit of the citron will all at once change their nature and produce
only sweet oranges or bitter ones , or run through the whole series alternately . Finally , these freaks will often suddenly cease , and a
plant which has been sporting away its youth-in such coquettish vagaries will sober down into a staid matronly tree , bearing
henceforth but a single kind of ordinary fruit . The bigaradier attains sometimes to a very great age . There
is one in the gardens of the convent of St . Sabine at Rome which is asserted by tradition to have been planted by St . Dominic about
the year 1200 , and which was certainly _sjDoken of by Augustin Gallo , as far back as in 1559 , as a tree which had been in
existence from time immemorial . Being looked on as a miraculous prodigyits fruit is reserved to be givenwith great ceremonyto the sick ,
. and , some of it was also invariably , presented to the Pop , e and Cardinals on their Ash Wednesday visitation of this church . Age did
not seem to impair its fertility , for in 1806 , according to the assurance of the monksit bore no less than two thousand oranges . It
, was still living a few years ago , and _jxrobably may be so now . Among the minor uses of the _orang-e-tree , it may be mentioned
that its wood was formerly much used in marque trie work , but since so many new varieties of timber have been brought from America ,
orange-wood has fallen into disuse . The leaves find a place in the Pharmacopoeia , being sometimes prescribed for _hysterical females
instead of tea ; and from common oranges , cut through the middle while greendried in the airand steeped for forty days in oil , the
, , Arabs , according * to Crichton , prepare an essence , famous among old women for restoring a fresh black color to- grey hairs .
Oil of neroli and napha-wate _' r , two delicious perfumes , are distilled from orange-flowersbut the blossoms find their noblest
, use in being dedicated to the fair brows of the English bride—the chosen wreath which the maiden wears but once—during that holy
rite in which she bids adieu to her maidenhood for ever . 3 " Each other blossom , in its hour
O T he ma onl id at once will the may wear ; -flower Her wreathed , y brows , may orange bear . "
It is rather singular that the origin of a custom so general throughout this country as that of appropriating the orange-blossom
to the bride , should be involved in so much obscurity , but nothing positive seems to be known upon the subject . Some years ago a
correspondent of Notes and Queries made a request in that work for some information upon the point , but after the lapse of more than a
year all that was elicited was that a gentleman had read somewhere
420 Fruits In Their Season.
420 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/60/
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