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FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 423
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Summer's Light Fruits Have Long Since Fl...
whether judged by form or flavor , was particularly noticed by Jacques leson Vitry which , who the describes marks " of a tree a man bearing ' s teeth * beautiful could citron be distinctl -colored y
perceived app , / ' and the skin is indeed covered with little irregular inthe dented miraele curves -mongering , conveying Crusaders no inapt idea very of naturall having y been concluded bitten , whence that it
could be no other than that Brought death , into the " Fruit world , whose , and mortal all our taste woe . "
onl Another reall variet hard y , the lant Limonia of the whole laureola orange , is remarkable tribe , it being as b found eing the on y p
year the y tops it lies of y buried cold and under lofty snow mountains . The , where hill lant peop that for le some the of India musk months fancy of that the
it is by feeding on the leaves of this p acquires its In peculiar France odour the lemon . bears the name of citronalthough the fruit
which though reall the y words claims that limonade title is and by limonadier no means unknown have , been there adop ,, and ted
this into drink the language who came ever into since France they were under introduced the ministry by the of sellers Cardinal of
Mazarin French , retaining , writers the would name never which stoop they to had use borne a vernacular in Italy . term But
as and whenever which it must was therefore possible have to emp a loy more one scientific derived air , from the word the Latin Union , ,
eschewed in literature , could , never establish itself , and , as Risso fruit observes from , the which people limonadiers , with , strange make obstinacy limonade , persist " un in citron calling " He the ,
howeverwould not conform to a usage which , gives rise to such confusion , and with the people of the South of Europe ,
throughout his work , uses the terms limon and limonier , for what genteeler Paris would desi , gnate as citron and citronnier .
It Citronworts can scarcely as be the considered members as of decided the whether famil the _Aurantiacese are called in orange y
or , the technology of the Natural system , are indigenous to the New trees growing World laden , thoug wild with h on now the large superabounding banks sweet of Hio fruit Cedreno there were in but found many in his parts by opinion . Humboldt Orange they
-, were but the remains of an Indian plantation . In Cuba they are so numerousthatin the words of the same mighty traveller , " It
would seem , as if , the whole island'had been originally a forest of palm grow according , lemon apart as , , and and either the wild is p orange lanters found in trees distinguish it . preferring " The the two that qualit latter which y , it of produces appears the soil ,
, the naranjal to that where grows the lemon . I-Iumboldt believed this wild fruit to have been anterior to the agrumi of the gardens , inhabi
t transported ants asserted thither that fruit by Europeans of the cultivated , since the trees best broug informe ht from d Asia
preserve their size and sweetness when they become wild ; and the
Fruits In Their Season. 423
FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 423
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 423, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/63/
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