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FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 169
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. Vii. King Pikje Apphe. "The King* Neve...
of the seventeenth , century the interesting stranger reached our shoresIn 1661 Evelrecords that he " saw the famous Queen
pine broug . ht from Barb yn adoes and presented to his majesty ; but the first that were seen in England were those sent to Cromwell
four which years the king since . gave " In to 1668 the French he says ambassador again , "I . was Stan at ding a banquet by his
maj maj King e esty sty p , ine after at , dinner growing cutting , in it in the up Barbadoes , presence was pleased , , was in , in the that Eastern West rare fashion fruit Indies called . , " to g His the ive he
a piece off his own plate to this worthiest of his courtiers , that might taste as well as feast his eyes upon a novelty he had never ment seen before for , " but in this further inion" acquaintance he continues only "it induced falls far disappoint short of
those , ravishing , my varieties op of , deliciousness , described in Captain _lo much gon ' impaired s history and in coming others ; so but far possibl . " This y it was might a distressing be , or certa discovery inly was ,
for the biases gourmands of Charles ' s court , in search of a new sensation take a , voyage for the to boldest the West of them Indies would for the hardl sake y have of getting that dared fresh to under other pine
app mean les s , should and the be need tried to therefore secure the became enjoyment pressing of charm some s so exqui-A site Dutchm yet so fleeting anLe as Cour to be of thus Leyden dissipated was the by a few ician weeks who ' voyage after .
, , , mag , potent many laborious enough to and comp costl el y the efforts royal , succeeded foreigner in to first bloom devising beyond a spell his
native tropics , and present himself to European admirers in all the fulness of his attractions .
is represented A picture at Kensington upon his knees Palace presenting , in which a Rose pine , the to Charles royal gardener II ., has ,
led some to think that he was himself the grower of the fruit , but it is more probable that he was only its purveyor , for one of the Sloanean MSS . distinctly affirms that the ananas was not introduced
into this country until 1690 , in which year it was procured from Hollandas a botanical lantfor the Royal Gardens at Kew . The
memory , of the first that p bore , fruit in England is preserved in a landscape in the Fitzwilliam Museum , at Cambridge , in which one
is introduced for which this honor is claimed . It is stated to have where been grown fruit-bearing in the garden ananas were of Sir certainl Matthew y to Decker be seen , flourishing at Richmond in ,
corded 1726 . in Ten one year of s her before livel this letters date , her Lad introduction y Mary Mont at ague the had dessert rey , table of the Elector of Hanover , to this noble fruit , but the
allegation , often repeated by careless writers , that she had never even taking heard of the such tro a uble thing of b r efore eferring , is an to error her own palpable word enoug s on the h to occasion any one ,
A . fter expressing her surprise at the superiority in number and beauty of the orange-trees in the garden at Herrnhausen to any
she had seen in England , she continues : " But I had more reason
Fruits In Their Season. 169
FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 169
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/25/
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