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FRUITS IN THEIK SEASON. 129
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juice and ints Dr is . extracted Roxburg twelve h by says means ints , is that boiled of each tapp down ing tree * the to yields one trees of from in goor cold 120 , and weather to every 240 ;
four p of , every goor yields one p of good powder sugar , so that the average produce annuall of At each the tree time amounts when Dr to . seven Roxburg or h ei wrote ght pounds 10000 of cwt sugar . of
y . , , tities date sugar were was exporte made d to yearl Eng y land in Bengal and elsewhere , whence , considerable date-sugar selling
quanfor Palms about one were -fourth introduced less than into cane Eng -sugar land . as green-house plants , Millerof
Chelsea about a is hundred said to have and been fifty years the first ago -who , and cultivated the note them d . The , attention , they have received of late years has resulted in great
of success . the ; most and striking the _sjDlendid attractions specimens of those shown trul their at y Kew royal native form gardens climat one .
Miller asoften says to that make they but grow two feet so slowl in ten y , even years in ; and mentions some at e , Chelsea , whi , ch had been planted twenty years before he wrote , and
then had trunks but two feet high , though the leaves were seven feet and By farther long the , limit and expansion they of their had denied even utmost borne , palms circumference fruit are . prevented being from soon attaining attained slen ,
der any very lindrical great col age umn . At of the the end Phoenix of about ceases sevent to asp y ire years any , the higher - ; for another cy seventy years it continues the end of in p the erfection second , then century begins Yet to
utter decline extinction , and mostl does y falls not await by the aged tree , for its grave become . s the cradle of its successorand from the withered stump springs
forth at least one shootwhich , in time fills the place of the defunct parent that the , and tree " owes keeps its its n , ame memory of " green Phoenix . " " It and is to it is this said peculiarit to have y
iven oriin to the fable of that bird , of the sun whose dying g " resurgam g " chant roused a new life out derived of its their ashes . The from Phce the
niciani tooit is considered by some , name dacty number lifera of , palm from -trees the Greek growing dacty in lics their a country finger . is The due _siDeeific to a fancied name ,
resemblance , between the clusters of , fruit and , the human fingers . The Arabic nametam _?'* signifies straight or upright , and furnishes
founded also the b etymology Solomon , of the Tadmor , title , of that which palm was -girdled translated city of in later the desert days
y , into The Palmyra curious . fact of the trees being divided by Nature into the
fruit that -bearing the form and er becam the pollen e barren -supply if ing " widowed kind was " very by the earl removal y noticed of ; had not
the latter is distinctly mentioned by Pliny ; and the Arabs only learnt exactly that' it was in the formation of the blossoms
tamr * This hindee word , or supp Indian lies date too . the title of the tamarind , called in the Bast the
Fruits In Theik Season. 129
FRUITS IN THEIK SEASON . 129
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 129, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/57/
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