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42 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON.
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, . , —' Xi. The Peach. Its Itaxy *' Hom...
the far East—a derivation the memory of which is still preserved in its botanical name _JPersicathe generic prefix being the same as
. the Almond , Amygdalus . , An old tradition asserted that being _„ originally of a poisonous nature , causing dreadful tortures malicious to any
ivho ate it , it was sent from Persia to Egypt with the view of injuring the inhabitants of that country , who it was supposed would be tempted by the beauty of the new introduction : to
partake of what would prove to them a fatal banquet—a wicked design which was unexpectedly frustrated by the "beneficent Egyptian
soil-working so wondrous a change in the plant that ; its produce , this gathered DrSickler there , proved considers as that harmless the peach as delicious might have . In he reference _^ n at least to
unwholesome , . in Mediaand have become good and salubrious as it gained increased pulpiness , when transferred to the rich alluvial
s soil olution of E of gypt the ; b and ane our having own thus Kni become ght suggests a blessing as the that most the probable Median
fruit which spoken contains of a mi considerable ght have been quantit reall y of y prussie an almond acid , , and the is flesh to this of
transp day held lanted to be to poisonous Egypt , mi in g some ht have parts become of the modified Continent , into but which a true ,
less peach than ; indeed an improved , he characterizes or fleshy almond the latter , or fruit rather as " neither an almond more swol nor
len and become pulpy , " considering that _" nut , " as it is popularly reckoned and the sloe , to be to reall the y lum to the . This peach theory what he the justified crab is to by the an experi apple - ,
ment in hbridization p which resulted in an almond-tree fecundated the _Iby the flesh pollen of y the of latter peach with , blossoms the kernel , producing of the former a fruit . which Du Hamel combined too ,
, speaks farrow of while an amandiere on the tree _-pecli as er , does the fruit the almond of which -husk mostl , the y sp flesh litsat being the
sometimes , quite worthless , , sometimes very tolerable , and the kernel known differing even little to the from ancients an almond , thoug ; h and wrong that ly some attributed such b effect y them was to
grafting , may be gathered from the statement of Pliny , that _" the p impudenc lum-tree ance e grafte of quite the d parent its on own tlie stock , nut for exhibits together it produces what with a the we fruit j may uice which call of the has a p adopted iece all the of
fruit appear and in consequence of its being thus compounded of both , it is , known by the name of nuci-pruna , or " mit-phim . " Columella
adopts the story of a poisonous gift treacherously conveyed to Egypt , alluding in his ancient treatise on the garden to
" Wi App le s _wjiich ive poison most barbarous arm'd , ( as Persia Fame relates sent , ) Anxbrosian Though now juice they ' ve lost have their forot power to hurt to kill , and yield
But of their coun , try still retain g the name , "
the thoug ' ' persica h some , '' but ancient the w ' perm riter , s '' a ffir ve m ry that different this fruit lege , nd not ref identifi erred not with to
42 Fruits In Their Season.
42 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 42, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/42/
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