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FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 397
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inuch finer than elsewhereand new Muds which , had never been grow noticed before not unfrequently , manifest themselves , owing
perhaps ashes scattered to the soil being it . stimulated In such a nei by the hborhood salts contained then Was in deve the - g
loped if at all a strawberry inferior upon to it much in any larger other than respect the , and ordinary in order one , to yet perpetuate scarcely ,
received Ville this improvement du , Bois tradition became anct concerning a turn village it of of the to strawberry Monsieur the affair best , and - account Duchesne growers all , that . the the Such village could author is the be of
of elicited the , elaborate when , at " the Histoire request Nafairelle du Fraisier , " the , cure of the lace went through canton questioning all the oldest
inhabip every localit tants as where to the the particulars lant ori ; inated for as nothing to the positive exact epoch could when be ascer , or - g
took taine p d y lace , a fact about not two p much hun to dred be and wondered fifty , year at s , b seeing efore . that The the villag event ers
remained constant to their first love for nearly a century , but in 1780 abandoned itand turned their attention to the vine , to which
culture they have had ever however since , by devoted this time themselves spread throug . A h taste the for neig strawberry hborhood ;
their adjacent natal villages lace adop and ted it is the still poor to the plants nurseries when in thus this cast vicinit out y from that
gardeners demand for repair p them , to is supp continual ly themselves * for althoug with the h finest all old plants plants . The are
, these destroyed too every being third always year transp and lanted replaced to b a y different their own spot runners , yet in , even the
ninth , or , even sometimes in the sixth , year , it is found necessary toclear , out every root and head branch- and bring of the in an entirel It is y at new Montreuil stock ,
iresh market princi from pall and y the that it ori is fruit ginal therefore of this -quarters from kind this is grown place race to that . supp its ly best the known Paris
has name been * is , derived carried , for in the this system instance of to " Every such Gardener an extent his that own Du Sponsor Hamel "
the says Parisian the _^ number who of knows synonymes that the for best this strawberry variety is he " buys terrible has - " been but
strawberry brought thence . , The , simp largest ly settle , figured s the matter in the by calling Nouveau diamet it the Du Montreuil Hamel ,
measures little more than an inch and a half in er . involved The lineage in obscurit of the for next it was notable not French like that strawberry of Montreuil is , less an
ennobled guished forei native gner graduall , born y , of y risen an aristocratic above , its with race fellows the , and , additional but arrivin a distin g eclat in
-France of havin in g 1712 survived , in full a - long blown and honors perilous , and voyage . The ineer introducer who had been was a sent most to api Americ _3 ropriatel b y- the named King M . of Erezier France , an and eng who had been
berrie particularl s cultivated y struck , at when a the y fo in ot Chili of the , with Cordilleras the b eaut , which y of th , e he straw said - ,
Fruits In Their Season. 397
FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 397
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 397, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/37/
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