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FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 41
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T. Pacts And Fictions Co^Stceening Pigs....
feet broadthe trunk of one measuring twenty-two inches , and the frost other of twenty 1813 , -ei 14 ght the inches main in diameter stems were . Much cut down injured when by the the severe trees
recoveredso - as in , 1817 to be in tolerable vigor , , but on making a been pilgrimage entirel , to destroyed their shrine during in 1836 some , Loudon recent repairs found of that the they palace had ,
y the growing only in trace the of Archbishop them that ' s remained kitchen-garden being . a Another few back cuttings in very the aged now
treenow also destroyed , but growing a few years garden , at Mitcham , the private estate of Archbishop Cranmer the , was said
to garden have been at Winche planted ster by was that graced prelate ' s by own another hand ; veteran and , trained Dean ' s that in
against 1623 James a stone I . " wall tasted , on of which the fruit was an of inscri this ption tree with testify great ing pleaknown in Oxford
broug sure , " ht A there gain , b the y the first of great the tree oriental of ius the Professor kind traveller of Hebrew Dr . Pocock in Chri , was and st's
p brated Church lanted Hebrew College in the garden , in scholar 1648 . and It Reg is related iler of of the Dr . Pol Kennicott yglot Bible , the , cele that - comp
fine as being he one thoug passionatel which ht , from yet y was fond any not chance , of full figs y of , ri and being pe seeing for deprived gathering on thi of s , the tree to secure promised a particularl himself words treat y , ,
he iC Dr appended . Kennicott a label ' s _B . g to _- } y the A twi gownsman g on which , however it grew bett , , er who bearing than had the the observed Doctor the proceedingand who loved a joke even
loved and carry figs ing , found off , both the fruit opportunity and label for , rep making laced the one latter quite with irresistible another , , from this tree
inscribed a prize as , " the A jig best ' for white Dr . Kennicott fi in gs 1838 exhibited . . " It Fruit at is the of the Oxfordshire kind called gained Horti the - cultural Societs meeting
"White Marseille y sthe skin of which is pale green , and the flesh , colorless The fi . tree is generalltrained against walls in this country ,
g-y for the the standard sake of form warmth and in and the shelter most , noted but in its lantation native of clim the e assumes kind in p
. Eng left land to , the their "Fig natural , Garden mode " at Tarring of growth , near . Thi Worthing s -fig orch , the ard trees does
are not above exceed a hundred three quarters trees ab of out an acr the e in size extent of large , and in app 1821 le-trees contained ; the trunkand the
proprietor bran dozen ches a day radiating informed during the an about inquirer ripening twenty , th season at feet he , from extending gathered the about from ; a August hundred each to
Octoberthe trees producing on an average about ten dozen . nected Nor had celebrities , these trees alread a less mentioned orthodox ori for gin the than author the of clericall " Pomarium y cony
Britannioum " records that the two olde , st were raised in 1745 from palace some ancient of Thomas trees a in Becket an adjoining and " that garden tradition , near asserted the ruins these of the to
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Fruits In Their Season. 41
_FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 41
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 41, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/41/
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