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PBUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 401
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royal degree pine of app similarity le , not onl to y tha on t account fruit both of its in conical its taste shape and , perfume but from .
a Althoug still but h few up varieties to the beg of strawberries inning of the and present no very century vast improvement there were
has had been been devoted effected in to any the of fruit them and , since , great that results time attained great attention : about
sixty good varieties are now in , cultivation , besides many of lesser worth . Yet , among them all , the pine in which stands it unquestionably oriinall pre to
eminentnotit is truein the state gy came the us , but hands as , it of , appears British after gardeners , the , careful in the education perfected it form has of received " Myatt at _' s
British Queen , " of which it may be fairly said , that" Meets All that in ' s her rich flavor , and all and that her ' s form brig . " ,
within Neither atomic tantalizing dimensions the appetite nor yet deceiving by concentrating and disappointing its excellence it by
presenting distensionthis fair proportions delicious , strawberry and proving offers a all mere that mass is exquisite of watery in
tastewhile , in magnitude often reaching to seven inches in circumgreatest ference , , bulk and wei that ghing the strawberry at least two can ounces attain . , for Not but Myatt that then ' s this Mammoth this is the
has been iant known is so to greatl weig y h inferior nearly twice in other as much respects , as not to admit overof grown comparison g with the former ; and the " British Queen / ' therefore ,
rei characterized stillunrivalled by the further as her namesake virtue of . being Hih an -bred immense fruit like bearer this , , g
however cattle gns of , scientific compares , farmers with the do ori with ginal the kinds hard much y little as the herds high of -bre the d human and
thriving Welsh or almost Scottish spontaneousl mountains , y depending ; been for the fostered creatures little to on , whether extraordinary care animal ,
attention or degree vegetable of in perfection order , which to , maintain have require onc a not e continuance mereltheir of excellence the most an unremitting , but almost y
their existence . The little rustic of the woods is therefore by no thoug means h superseded not the handsomest by these , pamp is still ered , says aristocrats Rhind , will far of the from nourish garden being under ; and the
worst circumstances of the sorts which now would cultivated be fatal , while to niore it delicate kinds ; and nurtured but by better richer berries soil and than a sunnier can be found situation in forest matures growths not , onl for y Larger
sunshine seems essential to sweetnessand fruit grown in the shade , is generally Had acid . known the luscious outgrowth which follows them ,
we never she . t onl strawberry for the sake might of still the have fair been flowers welcomed which so in profusel our gardens y adorn , were it .
Rising md ring y from of within numerous a pale stamens green — ten numbering -cleft calyx three , its _& or ve four white to petals each
Pbuits In Their Season. 401
PBUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 401
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 401, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/41/
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