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A 42 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON;
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self Ixave ; been a genealogy _brought which from Ital reduces y , and Cardinal planted Pole there ' s h Lamb y the eth saint lants
_himgenerally supposed to have been the first in Englandto the p rank , of-mere parvenus .. The glory of Tarringhoweverseems , in a great
, , in measure 1838 , to not have onl departed reckon ; s for but Loudon sevent , describing trees onl the from Fig twelve Garden to y y
to fifteen the feet proprietor high , but so adds that that the their legend ori associating gin is quite y them unknown with even the
hood blessed . Thomas would , appear to have died _outiin its own
neighbourderive The the nam Latin e of the Ficus fig from varies fcecundus but very on little accoun in any t of language the tree ' s : abun some
dant bearing , while others seek its et , ymology in the Hebrew name fag _. Its Greek title , _JSyJcosderived by Dr . Sickler from Sicyonis
perpetuated in our sycamore , , a near ally of the fLg . The Ficus , carica air , our in comm lan on d fig is -tree sometimes , and the only one which will grow in the
general thirty open feet altitude hi Eng gh . , thoug Its , large h from leave fifteen s are a , mere deep to twenty l shrub y lobed , feet sometimes , sometimes is the a more into tree three
short surfac , hairs e sometimes and . hairy As to into beneath the five iblossom , divisions the branches in , describing and are also roug being it the h on fruit clothed the is upper with also
b described oth flower , for and they fruit are in and fact if one we , ; would the fig even we gather see the being former at once ' we ;
to must deck exp the lore branches the latter of . this _ISTo tree blossom with of floral delicate beaut petals y , yet ever is it appears not , leffc
mortal spring flowerless ing eye , from , thoug inurned the h axils its within blossoms of the those leave flourish flesh sbearing y green and the fade protub all erances unseen of seen by
unripe fruit , and which , if cut open , disclose , a whole appearance cluster of small an unisexual flowers inserted into the inner surface of this rind-like
form receptacle s the , base as the of florets that flower of the . dandelion A few male are blossoms into the are part at which the
upper part of ; fche cavity , while numerous female ones fill the uall remainder y a seed of surrounded the space below bpul , each which ovary together of the latter with becoming the succulent
eventy p , , receptacle , forms , when ripe , what may be called an admirable imitation of a true berrythough formed in so different a manner
to It may the familiar perhaps g dandelion ive , a clearer and idea imag of ine so singul the very round ar a growth white , to cushion recur .
which supports that flower , to spread and rise around ituntil the _, yellow star should be quite closed over , the florets thus , entombed
the confi ing still airy them guration flourishing mass , however , of in on the the , in with p dandelion their lace a of g dark lutinous that ' s cell rounded lig , pul ht and feathery py maturing head substance . down The seeds , filling shape which , surround up of forms this the
fractal or less rounded flower or , and floral if fruit the op is inions very similar of Monck to , that whose of a experiments pear , more -
A 42 Fruits In Their Season;
A 42 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON ;
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 42, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/42/
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