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FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 45
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T. Pacts And Fictions Co^Stceening Pigs....
bottlepressing her thumb on the other end of the tube when full , to prevent , the contents of the flowing full " out ; then fig and , withdrawing lifts her thumb 1 it , inser for ts
the her moment ti tube p into to after let the ten one eye or drop twelve of oil fi -grown descend have been , taking thus a fresh treated supp . This ly int is a gs
considered rendered eatable the least the obj fi ectionable are far . inferior mode of to caprification those ripened , ye naturall t , thoug y h . About Marseilles , . the p gs lants are left to grow for two years , then
_ciit downand the , shoots which spring forth after this , form , in the In third order , year to , reach a bush perfection , which the the next fig year -tree ri requires pens fruit so . plentiful a .
, its supp large ly of leaves "water and that it mi orous ght almost bark be with said but to a be sli partl ght ep y i aquatic dermis , :
favors frost transp A treatise iration on , very so fi that p written extreme by , heat an author is as injurious of the sixteenth to it as
. gs , zine centur mentions y in the South a very of ingenious France , and method quoted adop in ted the in Gardener that localit ' s Maga y to
cistern quench , s this under plant the ' s- fig perpetual -trees , and thirst into . " them We p we lace put , them " says the he ends , " small of the a
branches quantity , of bring worsted ing the threads other , and ends then down conduct to the ground among , a little lower than those in the cistern , and by this means the capillary the branches
attraction is set to work , diffusing moisture among and Thoug also h dropp only ing cultivated down fi upon for also the the table roots . in for " the -northern thoug provinces h sufficient of
France care is , not in the devoted south to gs this are operation grown , excep dry t just ing , about Marseilles and a few other parts , so that French figs , excellent when just sell at inferior
ri prices gathered a , owing state , are it to often is not ascertained having useless been for to have keep properl ing reache , y or prepared d by the . very " appearance When fully
heat of and pe a , of spread sugary the sun out tear on on in a wicker roof the eye or hurdles against of the a or fruit wall boards , housed it , should exposed during be to gathered the the ni full ght ,
, , and or whenever afterwards rain once may ; boxes finall threaten y interm , flattened , ixed and with with turned the , at hand first of , and laurel twice packed leaves a day in ,
rush basketsor in layers _. di In pped some before parts , dry of ing France into , in a hot order lye to made harden of the their ashes skins of the , they fig-tree are ,
must which be , are carefull remarkabl excluded , y rich and in the alkaline different salts varieties . All unsound should also ones be . y
, fo kep ggy t apart season , as s recourse some dry must more be had quickl to artificial y than others heat when , but . thu In this rainy dried so dete or is
riorates the flavor of the fruit , that its value , s , _* fi diminished isin a by great at least measure one-third , accounted ; and the for inferiority by this method of the Greek being
ordinarily at gs least , the emp good loyed effect in of their killing preparation the eggs , thoug deposited h the by process the insects has .
Fruits In Their Season. 45
FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 45
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 45, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/45/
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