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FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 329
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the _trees on horizontal trellises only ten or twelve inches from tlie ground , so that the heavy snows of it from winter all soon completely frost bury
the whole plant , and thus protect injury during" . In the South of Russia it is said there are _" forests of cherry-trees /' but there we are . approaching * the head-quarters of the race , for
Cerasusor Cerazuntwhence they were first brought , and whence their borders present , of the botanical Black , Sea name They Cerastes still linger is derived loving , was ly in a cit the y reg on the ion
. which is looked on as their native place ; Tournefort found all the hills in the neighborhood Horticultural covered with them , and in 1824 tlie
Dr . Walsh read a paper to the Society describing where state of he cherry cultivation the gardens along each the occupy -west coast ing several of Asia acres Minor of , says
, , , ground All the , consist numerou wholl s varieties y of cherry of cherries plantations which . now existand among ,
which it can no longer be told which wild was the the first-improved red and Mithri _soxir
datic oneare traced back to two types , one , the other , black and bitter ; the former being called by the French cerisiersand the other merisiera contraction of cerises _amerss , still
, , further times _guigyiiers contracted ang b licized y English into provincials il Greans / ' while into " the merries same ; '" admirable or
somemethodizers to , whom we are indebted for these distinctive appellations further divide the cultivated kind into the firm-fleshed
bigarvariegated reaux , from with bigarree red , and parti yellow -colored ; and , these the tender fruits It has -fleshe being been d , griottiers generall doubted y ,
whether formerly the agriottiers cerisier , be from reall aigreur an indi , sourness genous . growth of Europe , for even in France it is onlin the y vicinity of human habitations that it
woods is found as wild tall ; as but oak the s y or indubitabl beeches y native with horizontal merisier , growin branches g in , and the
poor the bearing other cherry that - . fruit fruit - iii - trees tree 1669 more . in the It a or law was . royal less was so bitter forest hi passed ghl , y t abounds , ill prized for left the thus as more special supp unchecked perhaps lying protection food , they than for of mul any tlie all
tilied to such an extent that there , would , soon have been little room _, ruthlessl edict left p for was any promul destroyed thing gated else , except when , commanding , a with select a rush number all the to the rap of idl other sap y lings rising extreme reserved race , a to new be to
y , calamity secure : a supp for the ly of poor timber _* for . soup This made inconsiderate of cherries measure , with a little was a of butter great tlie and breadtheir chief sustenance during a great part
dried year , in the great fruit , was quantities being not by onl exposing y put to it this on use boards while in fresh the sun , but wi , or nt also in
ovensand an inexpensive provision thus secured for the er ; stewed In : Germany , , with a little also , sugar kirsch and en-suppe a qu , antity consisting of water simp sli ly ghtl of y thickened cherries Crushed cl
fermented with potato , , these flour , wild is a fr cherries equent disli can at also most be tables made . into a wine an of
Fruits In Their Season. 329
_FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 329
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/41/
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