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. VII. KING PIKJE APPHE. "The king* neve...
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A Short Account Of The Life And Labors O...
Having sent in this report , Madame Allix waited over the 30 th . of December in breathless suspensehoping" that something had
been said in Council about her school , . Evening came , and she learnt that they had not even mentioned her !
( To be continued . )'
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. VII . KING _PIKJE _APPHE . " The king * never dies" is an axiom no less true in , the fractal
, monarchy than in the monarchy of Britain , for a fruit of no season , or rather of all seasonsis the regal pineon whose head the crown ,
held indeed by right divine , , has been dep , osited by the all-ordering hand of Nature herself . Even yet more than the orange is this
fruit entirely a delight of modern days , a joy with which the ancients intermeddled not ; for it was guarded in a Transatlantic
Hesperides by dragons of the deep , far beyond the power of any classic Herculestill the Genoese oceanconqueror fought his way
through all oppositi , on , and won for the , denizens of the old continents all the treasures of a new world , and among them this
sovereign glory of all fruitdom . The pine apple is indeed now so uncultivated indi plentiful in s to some places the _j , trop _3 arts that ical of some parts Asia have , and of the thoug in three Africa ht it continents , even must in have the but been most this _,
idea genou is negatived by the fact that no mention of it appears , in the works of author who wrote before the discovery of America .
According any to Beckmann , who dedicates a chapter of his _" History of Inventions and Discoveries" to this subject , the first who described
and delineated the fruit was Oviedo , who , in 1535 , was Governor of St . Domingo , and who published a General History of America .
This enterprising Spaniard made great efforts to introduce the new daintinto Europebut it could not sustain the longuncertain
voyages y of that period , ; the fruit was always spoiled long , before arrivaland the shoots or slips of the plant also perished- by the
next way . described , A French it monk under , who its Peruvian had resided title for of some lianas time ; and in Jean Brazil de ,
Lery , a Huguenot chaplain—who remarked on its exhaling so strong a scentresembling that of strawberriesthat it could be smelt
when afar , off in the woods , and being so , delicious in taste as to take rank unquestionably as the best fruit of America—was the first
to use the word Ananas , its present botanical , cognomen . The prefix Bromelia , given to it by Linnaeus , was derived , from lanted Olaf
Bromel , a Swedish naturalist , who died in 1705 . Transp from Brazil to the West Indies , it was thus brought a little more
within reach of the longing palates of Europe , and by the middle
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 168, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/24/
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