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398 FRUITS IN THEIR SEA§OJST.
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He usuall ¦ determined y equalled to a niake walnut an , attemp and often t at even least to a lien take ' s some egg " , of in . these size .
plants with , him when he returned to Europe , and five roots were accordingly selected"but alas ! there were at that time no ingenious
"Warclian cases in which ; such delicate passengers could find a safe and easy berth when on a voyage , and during six weary months ,
and a passage through the torrid zone , fresh water was a limited treasure not to be lihtly spent in quenching any less than human thirst ,
and the poor parched g frag arias would soon have perished had not the kind , supercargo taken pity on them , and allowed M . Frezier a
few precious drops daily as an extra allowance to bestow upon his to plants their . preserver On their as arr a ival meed , two of of gratitude the rescued from the five owner were : presented of these
the fate remained , unknownbut of the three which were landed with M . Frezier at Marseilles , one was sent to the Minister , Souzy , ,
of which also no record remains , and another given to Jussieu , and lanted by him in the Jardin du Roi ; but bearing only female , or
p then exclusivel fully y understood pistilliferous , its flowers blossoms were , and left this " witherin peculiarity g on not the virg being in
stem , " and the unappreciated plant soon died . But the fifth of this little familof ilgrims still remained in M . Frezier's own hands ,
and destiny y , stern p sometimes to strawberries as to men , sated perhaps with its four victims , spared the last of the race , the Ulysses of a
Fragarian Odyssey , and when planted by its owner at Brest , where he residedit blossomed and bore and multiplied prodigiously , and
was introduced , thence to other parts of Europe , besides establishing itself throughout the West coast of France , where it succeeds better
than in any other locality . How this came to pass is not known , for the inal heroor rather perhaps it should be said heroinewas
also org what is called , a female plant , bearing imperfect blossoms , and , M . Frezier was no botanist to discover this fact himself , or to notice with
what other kinds it was planted , or whence the fructifying j _> ollen was lied to its istils . Though hardly known in or near Paris ,
it continues supp to be the p strawberry , par excellence , in many other parts of France . The color is pale redthe shape often deformedand it
is said that it has been grown , at Cherbourg so large as , to be seven inches and a half in circumference .
Another ' French frag aria , the date and place of whose origin is chronicled with minute exactitude in the volume of Duchesne , is
noted for blazoning on its scutcheon of pretence but a simple single leaf , instead of the ordinary triple one ; but as this is its chief or
only peeuHarity , it need not be further adverted to , for though our race own has fruit at may least not a be history able , thus and to one boast sufficientl a series y interesting of biograp hies to claim , the
some space for consideration . That " Strabery e " was one of the common cries of London
ryp , at least as early as in the da 3 s of Henry VI ., we learn from the
verses of Lydgate / who died in 1483 , and that it needed no
398 Fruits In Their Sea§Ojst.
398 FRUITS IN THEIR SEA § _OJST .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 398, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/38/
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