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' 48 FRUITS 1ST THEIR SEASON.
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T. Pacts And Fictions Co^Stceening Pigs....
nislied _, indeed , tlie first poultice on record , applied under the direction of no meaner a physician than the princely prophet
Isaiah , whose prescription of " a lump of figs" cured the boilto smitten rennet Hezekiah , a twig . of The it juice put into of the milk tree causing , too , has it a to similar curdle _projDerty . _ The
ing wood 1 smith is of ' s little tools , special its softness use , excep fitting t to it form to retain whet-stones the oil for and sharpen emery
required for this purpose . It was formerly said to have been used by the Egyptians for their mummy-casesor coffinson account of
its supposed indestructibility , but this is now , proved , to have been an error .
f The fig-tree chiefly spoken of in the New Testament , sometimes under the name of the sycamorewas the Ficus Sycomoristhe
trunk of which , according to Nor den , , shoots out little sprigs , , at the end of which grows the clustered fruit . This tree is always
green , and bears fruit several times in the year , without observing any certain seasons , which accounts for the Saviour visiting the one
by the road-side , " lest haply He might find fruit thereon , " although _" the time of figs was not yet . " The sweet yellow produce of this
tree , in shape and smell , resembles real figs , but in taste is far inferior . It is the kind most prevalent in Egyptwhere it often
, forms the entire food of the common people , and where the fruit is made to ripen in half the natural time , without diminution of size
or flavor , by means of cutting a slice off the end , when it has attained a third of its growth , deep enough to remove all the
stamens of the male flowers before they have had time to mature their pollen , a process , by the adoption of which the annual
produce is considerably increased . The B . g is nearly allied to the mulberry , with which it is included
in the natural system of botany , under the title of Moracceeor Morads ; and among the kindred which share yet more closely , in
its nature , and partake with it the common family name , one of the most remarkable is the Ficus Indicaor banyan-tree . It is to this
, tree that Milton assigns the honor of having been the clothing emporium of Paradise : —
Into The fi the -tree thickest not that shade kind " ; Both there for , together fruit soon renowned they went chose g
But such as , at this day to Indians known , Branching In Malabar so or broad Deccan and spreads longthat her in arm the s , d
The bended twigs take root and , daughters groun grow Hi About gh over the -arched mother and tree echoing , a pillar walks 'd shade "between . "
But the poet offers no reason for endeavoring thus to deprive our " earica" of this gloryascribed to it by common traditionin favor
of one quite foreign to , us ; and when we read of banyan-trees , being
h undred such m sq uare gnitude feet , an d in cover another , in on instance e case , a to spread area of over seventeen a dia-
' 48 Fruits 1st Their Season.
' 48 FRUITS 1 ST THEIR SEASON .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 48, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/48/
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