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FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 47
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T. Pacts And Fictions Co^Stceening Pigs....
fruits Italy , it almost lias fed all upon little . " birds in In the with the autum slender southern beaks parts attack are of and indiscriminatel France eat the and fi in y
called Becaficobecause n they gs , bird whereb to y which even their that , name flesh becomes really and very peculiarl fat and y belongs well-flavored , and which ; but the , it all in its
morsel would exquisit seem of e delicacy the , seldom bon , vivant and stoop has b s eing to been any reckoned prized other in by food all the , ages surpasses ancients as the among dainti the est
most refined of dishes , and , forming at Rome the sole exception to worth that gastronomic eating in birds theorem but the which leg and pronoun lower ced part that of the nothing body , - the was
figpecker To return enjoy however ing the exclusive to the R privilege . In of being former eaten times entire it gained . g proper
, , account an Spain evil " alluded of notoriety its being to as in so Shakespear a generall common y e vehicle a is favourite supposed for fruit poison to ; have and , probabl the referred "fi g to of
while the popul in classic ar belief days in , the at least prevalence , the ( i of Livian this custom _fi _. g" owed in the the wife its Peninsula name of th to ;
the assertion that it had been used by Livia , . e notice Emperor of Augustus divorce , to It convey was in to a her basket husband of figs a fatal too and that infallible the asp
. , , reposed coveted— whose the fa next ir bosom resting of - the place doomed was on Cleop the throne atrawith that whom kings this had
, fruit is said to have been a special favourite , a taste easily accounted forif the enchantress of the Nile were aware of the property
attributed , to them by Pliny of " retarding the formation of wrinkles . " The same authority informs us that the juice of the tree imparts a
fine flavor to meat , by being steeped in vinegar for the purpose , and then rubbed upon it . This passage has rather puzzled
comwhich mentators cannot ; but be it accounted may possibl for y have but which some nevertheless connexion with has a been fact
ascertained to be indisputably true , , viz . that , fresh-killed meat , hung for a few hours in the shade of the fig-tree will become as tender
the as if experiment kept elsewhere , assured for weeks the author . A gentleman of the Pomariu who had s Britannicum lately made
that a haunch of venison hung , soon after killing , among the leaves of a fi-tree at about ten o _' clock at nightwas foundwhen removed
before g sunrise in the morning , to be in a , perfect state , for cooking , and would in a few hours more have been in a state of putrefaction .
nit Jud own y g were fi ing -tree by every / this ' and , butcher it it would mi , at ht certain least materiall , l able y be y on an promote occasion advantage the , to di to _" gestion sit the under commu of the his
lieges , g were the rival plans g for the disposal of Smithfield Market to be harmonizedthe dead-meat market establishedand the ground
permitted to be ; planted also , only on condition , that the trees selected should be of the species ficus .
The virtues of the iag in a medical point of view are well known ,
it being most useful externally as well as internally , having far-
Fruits In Their Season. 47
FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 47
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 47, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/47/
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