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. Vii. King Pikje Apphe. "The King* Neve...
and white . Both , leaves and fruit are very beautiful , _Tbiit the latter is worthless save as a _eiiriotsity , for it has little fiavor , and is not
produced until the plant is at least eight or nine years old , nay , sometimes twenty , years elapse , and still from it Jamaica lives and Hiakes has no lish sign red . "
leaves The Blood lilac JEied flowers Pine . , and an fruit import of a reddish chocolate , purp color ; while the variet , called the , Green Pineunfit to be eaten while it remains
y , green As , regards is of an cultivated olive color pines when , reared fully ri in pe countrie . s where they must
ful be shop regarded management s of Paris as exotics throug of her , h France pineries stands week : the of next fruit the to may year England be obtained in at the "Versaille success in the s -
every , they one or are two equal of the in excellence Southern provinces to any that of S John pain Bull they can are produce grown in . the In
sweet open air in but nature the even Italians the prizin nectareous g the p dolcefar ine cannot niente compete beyond with any it other , and
_Loudoniii his , tour through continental gardens , found this fruit these gardens quite were a , rarity at but Portici sickl in , their and yellow a country few -leaved again . A monuments in few the there Pope of ' s were neg gardens lect in . , Energetic the but royal even
Sardiniaindeed . in y , this as in all other things , has been ahead of its fellowsfor , as long , as in 1777 its king sent a gardener to
, ago lished England a tract to stud detailing y the culture what of he the had Ananas learnt , and who g on iving his the return . _j > lan pub for
a pine-pit ; but the climate is so dry that an , extra supply of water becomes necessaryand sufficient attention not being paid to this ,
the lants do not thrive , so welland the fruit is but small . In p Prussiamost of the best , fruits now grown there were
introin duced as may which by be he the jud speaks , Great ged from of Frederic his his " letters , dear who garden when was passionatel , Crown " and says Prince y , fond ci I to burn of Voltair them with e , ,
impatience to see again my vineyards , my cherries , my melons . " in The its pine to b keep eing up his a sp continual ecial favorite supp , ly he , and had the large state numb of his ers p grown inery
was p one , of the last subjects that occupied his ever busy mind before he was' himself gathered by the great Reaper , for on his dying bed
had he on inquired the promised Grand after Duke himself the ' s ri table a pening farewell every of feast one week of . throug the In B fruits ad hout en from th the ere ye which are ar , pines and he
besides 400 cut annually for the dessert , about 800 more are used 3 _sious _soine very parts quality year for of . Germany the " Cardinale purpose as , " of fit too making nectar , which to wine fi associate gures , which at hi with is gh of festivals ambrosial very deli in
narzipan , is composed of champagne mingled with other delicate iand poured preserved ine apple .
quors In a natural state upon the Ananas is p peculiarly abundant in Sierra Leonewherebattenin , g on moist and decayed vegetable matter , it
ittains , extraordinary , size of foliage , destroying every other plant
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_EJEtUITS IN THEIR . _SEASON 175
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 175, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/31/
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