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32:8 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON.
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had ever known . The fruit of all this mighty conflict of thrones and dominions , this strife and massacre and bloodshed , was—a
cherry . For this Armenia / deemed by its proud conquerors half and bar wh b arous Lucullus , possessed notwithstanding a treasure yet 1 subsequent unknown in mi reverses ghty Rome was ,
decreed . a triumph for , the victories he had gained , amid all , the mos golden t striking spoil , the obj " weep ts in in g * t prisoners hat proud and procession the captured were standards the branches , the
of Pontic cherries with which the victor had wreathed his triumphal car . And well it inight be so ; for every other result of that victory
has long * since passed away . The mistress of the world is now not even mistress of herself , but her cherries at least she still retains , and
the credit too of having- introduced them to the rest of Europe , * for from the trees planted _bLuciillus in the sixt-eihth ar b . c
¦ years " Italy a , fter " says they Pliny , had , " spread was y to well other stocked lands , that , even y in as lessj g far than as ye Britain twenty ,
beyond . the ocean . " Some have affirmed that we are indebted to needed the great not Mithridates an interpreter personall in conversing y for this with fruit the , _dejouties and [ that of he any who of
the twenty-five different nations who did him homage when at the height of his powerdeigned occasionally to vary his lingual studies
with experiments in , _gardening " , and by grafts made by his own royal hands perpetuated what was at first perhaps but an
accidental variety . On the other hand , Theophrastus is quoted io show that it was in his time that the good cherriesas _distinguished from
scarcely eatable wildlings , passed from lower , Asia into Grreece , two hundred and twenty-eight years before Lucullus found _tkem in
the the The garden _suny cherry " when of , Mithridates however the Pontic , was , and prize not broug of absolutel war ht them was y ¦ ¦ thence born " a ne e w in to thing Rome triump _s . under h to
Xiome , for wild cherry-trees are indigenous throughout ( _Jntral Evel Europe yn amon ; are g found our n not ative unfrequentl . " forest berry y in - Eng bearing land , trees being ; " _ranked areWior by e
plentiful in Scotland and Germany , and abound in France ; ad well as being native to the north and east of Asia and to the _ilorth of Africawherein _Barlbarythis fruit is dignified with the trie of
_" Berry of , the King ; , " It does , not thrive in tropical climates , _feven flourishing better in themore temperate than in the warmer j arts .
of Europe . The Chinese , too , do not succeed in raising good Bruit attractions of this kind , though they seem to be specially sensitive _tq its
most Embassy seducing found , in cordial one in every form they part at could least of offer , Chin for to a Ab a cherry el Chinese tells -bran us pal dy ate th to at . " be " _HAs the me ;
; regards endurance of the other extreme of temperature , it - _^ ill ripen in some parts of Norway though not a native there , end
an ingenious method has been devised in the ; Royal _Gardens at St . Petersburgh for securing in that inclement climate a Ml
summer supply even of the tender Morello _, by means of training \
32:8 Fruits In Their Season.
32 : 8 FRUITS IN THEIR _SEASON .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 328, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/40/
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