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422 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON.
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Summer's Light Fruits Have Long Since Fl...
the whole . family to become known to Europeans , to whom , indeed , it furnished the botanical name for all its tribe . Identified with the
" apples of gold" to which Solomon compared the " words of the wise , " and with the fruit wherewith the spouse of the Canticles was
comforted , it is considered to have been known to most ancient nations ; and being introduced into Europe from Media under the
name of malus medica , was first cultivated in Italy by Palladius in the second century , a thousand years before the arrival of the
orange . The tree being for the most part a native of the woods , is so impatient of sunshine that it is best grown by being trained
on the back walls of orangeries or vineries , and even then requires extra shading during strong sunshine in summer . At _Loiseombe ,
the seat of C . Hoare , Esq ., are some remarkably large trees of citrons , shaddocks , and limes , which grow so vigorously that they
make shoots of from , six to seven feet long in one year . These were raised from cuttingsand the third year after planting out
, produced fine fruit . At Paisley , too , a citron-tree was grown which in 1830 covered a wall twenty-five feet long and sixteen feet high ,
and which produced that year between seven and eight dozen of fruitone of which measured eighteen and a half inches by nineteen
and , a half . In China they have a variety which attains a very considerable size and is almost solid , having scarcely any pulp or
cells , and which is divided at the end into five or six long cylindrical lobeson which account it is called Phat _tlmor the finger orange .
The fruit , is laid . upon & ne vessels of porcelain , in the sitting rooms of the Chinesefor the sake of its agreeable perfume , and was also
, carried about by the Hebrew women of olden times , to serve the purposes of a scent-bottle . The Jews in some countries still attend
their synagogues , on the Feast . of Tabernacles , bearing citrons in their hands , a _custonx mentioned by Josephus , and to which they
attach much importance . It is derived from the passage in Leviticus- - . xxiii . 40 in which they are told , _" Take you on the first day the
, boughs of goodly trees , & c . " and the citron , being the " goodliest , " tree with which they were acquainted , is supposed to have been the
origin of its being thus appropriated . The wood of this tree was considered so precious during the days of Roman tablo-mania , that
Martial says a table of gold cost less in his time than a table of citron-woodand this is confirmed by Petronius mentioning that
the Assyrians , were astonished at receiving so much gold in exchange for their wood , whenever the planks were of a size fit to
form tables . The normal shape of the lemon is that of an ellipse , with a
protuberance like a . nipple at the extremity , and from this familiar figure it offers fewer diversities than is the case with most of the
brethren of its family . When duly cared for , it thrives well in thiscountrysome of the lemons grown at Luscornbe measuring from
fifteen to , eighteen inches in circumference , and weighing as much
as fourteen ounces . The Italian "Adam ' s apple , " really a lemon ,.
422 Fruits In Their Season.
422 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/62/
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