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FKIJITS IN THEIB SEASON. 395
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LXIL—FRUITS IJST THEIR SEASON.
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«- X. A POTTJLE OP STEA.WBEEEIES. Adopti...
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asunder the tie by which . lie liad been bound , and we forgot not , even then in that moment of glad meetingthat joy and sorrow
, are twin sisters , that life and death go hand in hand . 3 ? _•& " _& it _£ * _* _Z
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Fkijits In Theib Season. 395
_FKIJITS IN THEIB SEASON . 395
Lxil—Fruits Ijst Their Season.
LXIL—FRUITS _IJST THEIR SEASON .
«- X. A Pottjle Op Stea.Wbeeeies. Adopti...
« - X . A POTTJLE OP STEA . WBEEEIES . Adopting the stle of Baron Cuvier in his famous criticism on the
French Academy y ' s definition of the crab , it may be said that there are but two objections to the title of the Strawberry ; the one being ,
that it is not a berry , and the other , that it has nothing to do with . straw : the theory of botanists establishing the former fact , and the
deduce practice the of et gardeners ymology of deciding the first the sy latter llable . not It , is as true it is that generall some y
tracedfrom the custom formerly adopted of laying straw beneath the fruit , to protect it from sullying contact with the soil , but rather _,
from the spreading nature of the plant causing it to seem strewn or strawed upon the ground , but in this case the name is founded ifis
on a word now obsolete , or again on a corrupted one , , as ever thoug was ori dates ht ginall by thus others y Str ignorantl ay who _-loevvy adopt y . from As this days regards cause of the i of gnorance the " berry derivation must " clause at , the least , what title "be
-, in itself a proof of antiquity , and who that rejoices in " blue blood " can doubt the superiority of any misnomer , indubitably ancient , over
the most correct appellation bearing yet on its face the evidence of has having something been bestowed more to but vaunt yesterday than an ! Eng The lish strawberry genealogy , however however ,
, remotefor the present Latin title of the species , fragaria , derived from its , _^ fragrant perfume , identifies it with the "frag a " enumerated
among third advantages Eclogue the field which ; beauties and the Ovid fair with ' Gal s huge atea which would Pol "Virg ypheme derive il twines too from , the recounting a verses matrimonial of the his
alliance with his giantship , does not omit to adduce as one part of the " settlement" he is anxious to make ; " With thine own hands
bhou shalt thyself gather the soft strawberries growing beneath the svoodland shade ; " though the immediate addition , " Nor I , being thy
iree husb ii Ct could attributing , " and considerabl , hardl will to there however y the qualifies be latter wanting be the any expected comp comparative to liment the that e the to the the power fruit taste first of of -named which the attraction arbute could fruit - , .
_mjoy supping y , off , shipwrecked , mariner au naturel could safely be rusted in the selection of a dessertand at least the Cyclop was
; lot singular in mentioning these two ; productions in conjunction , for
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/35/
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