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396 ERUITS IN THEIR SEASON.
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in every both arbutus its red tasteless other show and respect round the fruit least , ; , exce for to likeness outwei p neither t in the gh to in the particulars the foliage frag , aria pal in just blossom pable thoug named h , to nor , does this indeed day the
b it the ot commonl anis real t does strawberry y bears not seem the , onl name , y ho speaking wever of the , to of Strawberry have it as been a natural - , tree very . production familiar The ancient with of cultivatedof the fruit
whose being Italy , but broug researches making ht to table no into mention ; anti but quity we of its may were being receive naturall the y testimony directed , or of speciall Soyer y ,
with a view to gaining information on points of this kind , as to the fact and its of produce its having figuring been tended at the in banquets the gardens of both of nations Greece . and Rome , and indeed in most
race of I the ndi the world genous wild where almost wood a throug strawberry temperate hout , climate Europe was ac is , cept enjoyed ed probabl , the y type from of parts the the
earlie , st times as a favorite of Nature , needing no culture because perfumer No alread dye y endowed could rival outblush its with powerful every its crimson charm yet delicate that glow could , scent no deli preparation no ght invention the senses of s the of .
, compressed Apicius lpermitted surpass within its numerical an exquisite object of aggregation flavor very ; small and if to dimensions all compensate " this excellence , its for abundance indivi were
dual ampy littleness . In Franceat leastit was found that by transferto ring attain the p double lants to siz gardens ethe fine , , thoug flavor h , the was richer diminished soil caused in proportion the fruit ,
and for centuries therefore , not only was / this the only kind known , just Ibut the fresh preference from their continue native d wilds to be . given At length to the however little rustic appeared s when
the Montreuil strawberry , in which for the first , time a , spirit of its equ manifestation al excellence was was found Ville emb du o Bois died in a p a lac larger e about frame six . leagues The scene from of
with Paris woods , and a beneath part of the the shade country of which which , had the fair been little formerl fragaria y covered had
flourished from , time immemorial . But the day was approaching but when pruning the the -hook strawberries spear ; the of trees the were hunter -were still felle , preserved at d least , and , was the for forest to a be village " beaten became had into a sprung plain the ;
had up in devoted the sp themselves ace cleared to by the the culture axe , and of , fruit many . of Nor its had inhabitants the
occuhad pation naturall been adopted beenaccompanied without a b special y charcoal incentive -burning . , Wood and near -cutting the y
furnaces used for this , purpose it has often been observed that plants
396 Eruits In Their Season.
396 ERUITS IN THEIR SEASON .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 396, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/36/
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