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FKUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 48
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T. Pacts And Fictions Co^Stceening Pigs....
ii and deduced theories are recorded in tlie Horticultural Transactions ,, be correctthe external figure is a cluetotlie internal arrangements ,
for taining lie came both , to kinds the conclusion of florets in that an fi efficient gs are never state ; _prodiieed that those con in
which the male flowers only are perfect , never become eatable ; and that finally , these male figs may be known by their aracterized being rather bthe
squatelegant shaped , form while of the the superior pear . female Neither rather fruit can neutral is ch boast tint very the brilliant y commonest hue mor s e , for the color is always some
being consists a in brownish the fact of purp its le bearing . One several great peculiarity crops in succession , of the fi _diiring g-tree the first flow of in
the same year . On the shoots formed by sap the but summer spring in Jul shoots , y fi and gs , " appear as August they immature at , are as every called the eye sap , are , which beg formed h ins the ri to p , winter en and flow duri these and again ng ri put au , t _" forth mid not -
fi till climate gs the also , next , forming which year remain , the ear first lier or crop in la form t of er , throug that according and color season from to . the Not those warmth onl of y autumn do pen of these the
but vernal the fi midsummer gs often differ shoots both duce , being in to the spring in ones onl countries y as one thi to s ,
first six or eight is , held and the in little pro esteem proportion as is seen , by warm the expression in Hosea crop ix . 10 where it is said , disparagingly of the Jews , "I
however saw your at fathers least , in as the . the open first air ripe , the . in contrary the fig- is tree the . _" ease In ; Eng the land fruit ,
usuall mostly y perishing requiring , at the the whole approach year of to winter mature , , thoug and the h at later Tarring growth the h smaller
has second been crop very has which sweet occasionall often . In hangs y B ri arb pened ary and , and when ripens some the upon fruit other the , thoug p tree arts , after a third the ,
leaves crop appears are shed , ; and when grown here in stoves , three , and even four , successive The has varieties done harvests little of the are towards common not unfrequentl producing fig are y almo them obtained st the innumerable . flowers being , thoug too h
man yet difficult in the a botanist South of access of , who France to permit undertook foun of d them much to catalogue to experimentalizin amount , merel to sev y er those g al upon hun growin dreds them g ; ;
and Bosc observedtoo , that all he met with in America differed from which any the he blossom had known , is confined , in France tends . The also prison to the -like exclusion enclosure of the in
influences it most needs , a circumstance , which has given rise to partl a very y natural singular and method partly artificial of promoting , called fig caprification -ripening , by , and a process which
is h disagreeabl ymenoptera thus described y , tasting and by when Pliny fruit this , its . nourishes fli The wild ht wild fruit to the a fig sort beg kin , ins which dred of to gnat decay cultivated bears , one , the a of insect kind small the ; generated within it wings
and , beginning to feed on them g , makes aperttires , through which
Fkuits In Their Season. 48
_FKUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 48
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 43, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/43/
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