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264 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON.
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Viii. Oi/D Goosebeery A^D His Cuirakt Ee...
flourishing may be seen on the mantling flat coasts * " tlie of the castled Baltic crag but * the of best Drachenfels berries broug , " and ht
, to market throughout Germany bear about the same relation to our fruit as a Shetland pony does to a Barclay ' s dray-horse . Though
unmentioned by ancient French botanists , it grows wild , too , in various parts of France , but the contenrptuous notice of it in the
' ic " Nouyeau the bushes Du mak Hamet e hed , " ges sums in up the as the country amount the of green its , usefulness fruits serve that
instead of verjuice to season mackerel , ( whence , its common French name of _groseille auxmaquereanx , ) and the best are eaten when ripe , the
red and green sorts being mixed by the _fruiterers and sold to children and persons who like such things by measure . The English which make
tarts and preserves of them , ' and , ' says M . Laundy , a wine is very tolerable , or at least very renowned amongst them . ' " Shade of Goldsmith ! is it thus that a frog-eating Frenchman dares to
speak of " our own gooseberry , " that sparkling native nectar on which the virtues of the immortal Vicar were nurturedand with
, which he was wont to cheer the hearts of Wakefield ' s most honored guests ? On what trivial grounds the fastidious French may found
fruit and a dislike , cannot that , may " produce on be the jud a best ged disagreeable sort by , the the further hairy impression yellow intimation on , the the hairs respecting most are delicate soft the ,
lips . " On the most _hirsxite kind they would probably be softer than those which are wont to bristle on a Frenchman ' s physiognomy ,
yet which certainly he would never think it possible could cause a " disagreeable impression . " But it is the partiality manifested by
perfidious Albion for the poor gooseberry which evidently excites this Gallic scorn of it , and induced the editors of so elaborate a
work thus to mingle the splenetic with the scientific . The writer continues : " It would seem that the English particularly love the
gooseberry , or else that they chose it as specially fit to show the infinite power of Nature in the modification of matter , for they have
established societies to give prizes for new or improved sorts . M . Forsyth devotes so much space and care to it in his treatise , that it
would appear they think as much of its culture as we do of that of the peach ; but as it is probable it will with us always hold the very
importance last soil in place our on gardens than the it list merits in of order cultivated , as to being supp fruits l allowed y us , with we to will fish occupy - not sauce a g ; ive few thoug it feet more h of it
must be . confessed that , , thanks to the English , a few sorts are worthy to table . There ishoweverno French nomenclature to
them conservatism grace , and any we but will because not _adojDt to , c the all one Eng sort lish , , Le not Roi from Georges pretension , another or
M . Smithand , another Madame Yong , all names very good and beautiful , no doubt in Englishwould in French be simply
ridiculous very . " It would certainly be no , easy matter for a foreigner to render the titles often given to prize gooseberries ; for " Jolly
Angler , " " Lancashire Witch , " " Crown Bob , " & c . & c . would be
264 Fruits In Their Season.
264 _FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 264, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/48/
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