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EBUITS IN THEIB, SEASON.: 171
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three sitting Lilac * petals flowers _^ le within , or consisting bluish which in of are c a olor seen three these the -cornere pistil flowers d and calyx with six and short their a corolla stamens accom of - .
which pany of . the ing , purp after common bracts the , , flowers are thick scattered flesh fall y off upon recep increases , and tacle half which in size buried , supp and in orts the the cal them substance yces , , and the
bracts , the axis itself on which , all are arranged , , distended with the by fruit same gardeners , the , juices points , the combine " dividing i . to " the form It is surface a on succulent a larg into e triangular scale mass what denominated spaces the mulb , called erry the
pps , , ¦ is "¦ aggregate on a small fruit one , , " and being equall formed y with of a that number is termed of ordinaril by botanists y distinct an
walnut parts single , - all head sized grown fruits or cone together into . which In and the the fused sp flowers ecies into c develop alled one the another remain " Finguin , forming detached " the a ,
the much thoug end h _$ fce so of close an the ordinary together stemor pine branch that app at le on . a little " The which " distance the crow flowers n " the is , in are cluster fact arranged , merel looks y ,
finishing in a terminal , cluster of leaves , which , from their position , being species * thus , never above cultivated the fruit in , fo Eng rm land for , it but a nat which ural abounds diadem . in In Chin one a
and the Indian Archipelago , each flower on the spike has a separate branch hy duced a crown upon growing , a so sing that throug le a stem whole h its , and like centre cluster , as , father an and of old separat bearing in "writer the e middle fruits a expresses pine is and surmounted thus it , dozen ( i pro the
whole children plant round together about looks him . " Within a some at least of the a conglomerate of the group Ananas of united perhaps berries be or capsules found its which small compose oblong and the
numerous cone seedswhich may are plentifully produced in the wild fruit _,, , but are rare in cultivated specimensowing to the extreme _s _^^ _cculence
cells attained which by contain every _jDart seed . lie When near present the , centre at all of , it the is fruit found , while that the the
abortive seed-cells are mostly situate close to the rind , a fact which led Professor Martyn to conclude that some of the flowers might be
male In and the West others Indies hermap the hrodite Ananas . has been commonly grown from
seedbut the ordinary mode of propagation in this country was by means , of planting the crowns , which shoots , however from the , are middl now less of the in repute stem
than being their cultivation formerl preferred y , . the was The suckers the first substitution or great improvement of hotbeds which of horse e took -dung place and in
tan for fire heatan increase both in size and excellence following the cheapness a date adoption of . duration The of , p a lant rather system , however arbitraril recommended , was y assi still gned also looked to by it on , the since . as comparative a , thoug triennial h it , in
is its certainl native trop y its ics nature , this aim to bear and end fruit of once its existence only and is then not unfrequentl to perish , y
Ebuits In Theib, Season.: 171
_EBUITS IN THEIB , SEASON .: 171
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 171, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/27/
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