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172 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON.
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. Vii. King Pikje Apphe. "The King* Neve...
accom . plish . ed within the course of a single year , while all the care bestowed upon it by our gardeners often failed to obtain the desired
consummation before the lapse of four years . Of late , however , so _great has been the progress of the craft both in knowledge and
skill , that fruit is now produced in fifteen months or less , and with _, _^ i comparatively small amount of care and labor , which a short
time ago cost three or four years of continual toil and expense . Formerlytooit was considered impossible to " swell off" a pine in
forthwith ¦ winter , so , consi that , gned if a p to lant the showe rubbish d fruit heap late , cast in the out autumn and trodden , it was
under foot as a useless bringer of untimely births . Now , however , they are at liberty to bear and bring forth when they will , sure of
a glad welcome at any time for the tender progeny , for it has been found that the grand secret of fostering them into perfection consists
more in the proportioning of _^ Heat to light than in the unvarying amplitude of eitherand that by lessening the temperature of the
, pinery at night , or in dark sunless days , these children of * a land where winter is unknown may brave his frowns with impunity , and
their growth , though it may be retarded , will still steadily continue , . and an uninterrupted succession of heirs to the crown keep up the
glory of the family through every change of season . They make most progress , however , in _sioring and autumn , for , accustomed in
their native climate to grow beneath the shades of loftier vegetation , they shrink from the unmitigated glow of even an English summer
sun , and , except when the nearly ripened fruit requires just a few finishing touches of powerful solar influence to bring out its fullest
tones of color and taste , loves best that the bright rays should gleam into its greenhouse abode only through a leafy screen of
vines trained over the rafters . Too much air , however , can hardly be given , for though fruit will swell to an unhealthy corpulence
when grown in close pits , the flavor proves far inferior to that borne by plants more happily situate in light and airy houses . As
regards vegetable as well as animal life , " the worth of fresh air" is only now beginning to be generally understood ; but the appearance
of the denizens of such different abodes pleads powerfully as plainly in favor of the attendance of _" the Cheap Doctor" for when grown
, in pits the leaves of the pine apple are long , thin , narrow , and flabby , and the tall slim fruit-stalk so weak that it cannot without
support stand upright under the weight of its watery tasteless fruit ; while plants that have been reared in houses ever rejoicing in the
_^ surrounding light and air have short , thick , and broad leaves , stiff as those of an aloe , and sturdy unbending fruit-stalk , proudly
upbearing its luscious load of sweet well-flavored fruit , crowned with a _well-projDortioned coronal of short vigorous leaves seldom
exceeding half the height of the fractal cone , for an over-luxuriant crown would only betoken an undue drain upon the wearer . Some
of the finest pines indeed , in point of flavor , that have ever been
grown beneath an English sky , matured their fruit beneath its full
172 Fruits In Their Season.
172 FRUITS IN THEIR _SEASON .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 172, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/28/
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