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FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 331
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on says spe the aking , " cherry These of tlie - prett tree custom y ( the monuments - of wild lovers one I of carving suppose courtshi , their ) p which I find effusi has were on a s very upon much smooth , trees used ,
, rind , as the witty Calpurnius , " ' Hepeat tliy red words skin on cherry tablebook -bark will , I'll make take
And that my -. '" The first notice we have of cherries in England , after Pliny ' s i
mention 1415 , when of their Lydgate being ' s verses introduced recount here their by the being Romans however cried , for oc to curs sale have in n London streetsThe culture of them seems
to rather a great that languished monarch impetus . from who until the importe the efforts time d a made of number Henry by Hicharcl of "YIII trees , ., when Haine from it s , , Flanders fruiterer received ,
and lanted them , at Tenhamin Kent . Before the end of the _king's parishe reign p they and had , , in sold the at words great , rates of Fuller . I , have " spread read" into continues thirty- that two
author s , " that were one of the orchards of this primitive , plantation , consisting _£ 1000 , but lenty of thirt it y seems acres , of produced cherries fruit in that of one garden year meeting which sold with for a
; p , , , scarcit indeed y sometimes of them in paid all other for thi p s laces fruit . " , for Most Mr . extravagant Thornbury cherries tells prices us wh wer that e
in they the Shakespeare cost -were of a an fat ' angel s goose days , [ 7 was _" $ the . Qd but pretty . ~\ a a pound shilling and capricious ; " or this fourteen too ate at -pence a time . when They en
had countries prob b abl y y this become period , compar for we ativel further y learn common that in strangers with nei them ghboring arriv and - here ht things that were cheap
this ing dear time in Eng too " broug land they , as were paper over introduced , oranges to , pi a pp sister ins , c laud herries , for , & according c Sir . " Walter About , to
Ralei Dr . Kitchener g still h , at latel his they estate to be were at seen Youg first . B hal planted , a where near in connexion some Ireland of his by of cherry that - great trees were y
man pomolog the ical sam experiments e y tree was practised made the in subj Eng ect land of , for one Sir of of Hug the h earliest Platt ,
in his " Garden of Eden , " ' thus relates an anecdote loyal gallantry clude quite " worth he' y " of with the a relative conceit of of that Ralei delicate gh : " kni Here ght Sir I will Francis consays
Carew , who for , the better accomplishment of Ms entertainment of our Bedding late , ton Queen , led her Elizabeth Majesty of to happy a cherry memory -tree whose , at his fruit house he had at
all of _piirpose cherries kept had taken back from their ri farewel pening of at Eng the land least . one This month secret after he the whole
performed treeand wetting by so raising the sam a e tent now or and cover then of with canvas a scoop over or horn , as
beam were the , heat s very from of long the refl weather before ecting * they on required the had berries gotten ; and so th their ' ey by grew withholding perfect both he cherry remove great the color d sun and the - ; and when he assured of her Majestys coming
was
Fruits In Their Season. 331
FRUITS IN THEIR _SEASON . 331
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 331, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/43/
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