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336 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON.
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bear also tlie largest flowers and fruit , and London makes brief allusion to a certain " tobacco-leaved cherry , " ( the Cerasus decumana
of Delauny , ) the fruit of "which weighs at the rate of _foiir to the pounda magnitude whichin spite of wise saws , would certainly
, , make the proverbial " two bites" a by no means uncalled for proceeding . The stones for seedlings must be either planted in autumn
or preserved in sand until the spring , which would seem to betoken no very tenacious hold upon vitality , yet one at least of the cherry
tribe , a North American variety , would seem to possess very great power of lying dormant until circumstances favorable to its
development shall occur , since it is difficult otherwise to account for the peculiar property which , according to Michaux , it possesses , in
common with the paper birch , of springing up spontaneously in all places which have at any time been cultivated , and in parts of the forests
that have been burned , either where accident has made an extensive clearanceor even merely where a fire has been once lighted by a
, j ) assing traveller , as though some strange sympathy with man induced it only to spring into existence in spots marked by his
footsteps or where the element of which man alone is master had at least j _> repared the way for his presence .
_Sj _> eaking of the various uses of the wild cherry in France , Bose says prettily , that _"it is a manna sent by heaven for
youngbirds , " and cherries of all kinds , except the Kentish and Morello , are much preyed upon by these light-ivinged gentry . But the
feathered race are not entirely left to compete with jealous man , so apt to claim " all things for his use , " for a share of what he too
can . relish ; for the _Creator's tender care has even allotted to them a whole family of the Cerasus tribe for their special and exclusive
use , as far at least as the fruit is concerned , which , are thence called Bird-cherry-trees , and which grow wild in many parts of
stone Europe ¦ black and , America and growing . The in fruit racemes , which like is small currants , with , instead a very large of in
clusters , as our cherries dois so nauseous that it is quite unfit for , human usebut it is greedily devoured by birds of all kinds ,
, while the leaves are so peculiarly attractive to insects that the tree is often quite laid bare at the very beginning of summer , when
other foliage has scarcely been attacked . The cherry claims the honor of near kindred with the tree of
Apollo , being closely related , as the name indicates , with the Lauro cerasus family , including both the common and the Portugal
Laurel , and though doubt has sometimes been cast on the assertion of Cowley , when recounting the triumphs achieved by man in the
vegetable kingdom , he adduces as a crowning exploit : — " And Ev ' n weds Daphne the ' cherry s coyness to lie her does stock mock , " ,
_exj ) eriment has proved that the alliance is quite possible , and a cherry grafted on a laurel has more than once been shown at a
modern exhibition .
336 Fruits In Their Season.
336 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 336, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/48/
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