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    FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 261

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    Viii. Oi/D Goosebeery A^D His Cuirakt Ee...

    bear several fruit species resembling of ribes which currants , have , being the prickles indeed of the the connecting gooseberry , link yet to classfor the

    between the two . These are not easy for a botanist , presence are commonl or absence y distinguished of prickles from is the eacli one other feature , it being by which a singular the plants fact ,

    offer considering soms nothing develop how , on that different which the a organ distinction are the s of resp fructification of ective genera fruits can are into be so founded which similar , the . blos as The to

    currant has more numerous blossoms , it is true , but the gooseberry produces in each case several they in are a group arranged , one on or two a common mostly proving stalkeach abortive with , and its

    , number appended of bract parts , while disposed the in flowers an exactl are y formed similar of manner exactl . y the _Linnseus same

    , attempted to trace a distinction in the presence or absence of hair on the fruitand were all gooseberries like the little red Esau selected

    by currant housekeepers would , be as obvious making the h best ; but preserve among , the the difference former famil from y the are

    to be found Jacobs alsoas enoug smooth-skinned as the subtle supplanter of oldand trust in this , characteristic would therefore by no nieans

    , for misleading prevent some confusion better as it famil did of the in cognizance the tribes days , but of Tournefort the , on patriarch the contrary speaks . At , onl onl a y y loss of prove tliorny , then as ,

    y , and thornless groseiU . es , " and modern science has been unalble to improve The thornless on the classification gooseberrie . s , then , if so we must designate our

    circle of currant Europ , and friends e , venturing calling , are a up widel in a America y visio flourishing n to of the cooler ' There race very , climes native borders is evidence to amid of many the oriental of Arctic parts the

    thinks surroundings ancient it s hardl having in probable been many acquainted places that in they Asia with could . any have of been the no trib unknown e , but , Loudon though

    we may be unable y to identify them with any of the plants mentioned oldest by the Gr _botanical eeks and writer Romans , Gerard . It , is nor not currant does noticed its from , title however its imp resemblance l , y by any our very own to

    ancient origin , for it derives the name the currant imported sbecause dried they fruit were which broug our ht forefathers from Greece called and Corinth with . which es , or

    therefore , they must have been familiar before making , acquaintance with their now naturalized namesake .

    Foremost of this branch of the family stands the universally admired ribes ruhrumor red currantthe flowers and fruit of

    main which stalk grow and in racemes each supporting , , i . e ., on but little a sing stalklets , le-berry proceeding , instead of from branch the

    ing so as to , bear several , as in the case of the stalklets of a cluster situations of grapes . where "When it found often growing springs wild up from among bird rocks -sown or seeds in mountains , even small in ,

    leaved countries bush where scarcel , as in a foot Britain hi , h . it but is not under indi cultivation genous , it attains is a four - . y g ,

    Fruits In Their Season. 261

    FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 261

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 261, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/45/