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46 FRUITS IN THEIR: SEASON ,
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, . , —' Xi. The Peach. Its Itaxy *' Hom...
foretaste of their fruit , arid accordingly , having a few . dried peaches salt ability among of lemons b the y softening stores to revive of his them s - omewhat waggon in -water , prepared of and the faded adding them flavor to a lit the tl and e best sug then ar of and his set
, this forei " dainty novelt dish was " soon before shown the not chief onl , y whose in the appreciation strong approval of the he y
the those when expressed whole gn who in public , sat himself but by , also of him offering in , on the t this fact one some occasion that small portion , contrary p the iece of wild which what to potentate his he he usual partook gave consume custom to of his to d
uncle our Charles —a picture II . handing which , excep affords to Evel a yn strange a morsel reflex of , the in ruder first king colors -p , ine of
broug But ht of to all Eng the land countries . of the Old World , it is in China that this
fruit reaches the highest perfection in open orchards ; and the peaches the finest of in Pekin the , world double . the Nor size is of the European superiority one of s , these are considered celestial
attaches growths to simp them ly of , undreamt a material of nature as regards , for a sp the iritual wall si -fruit gnificance grown also by
ings seeming earthl , that y-minded to the hold tree barbarians very of " knowled much , the the ge same in peach does the p in - lace tree classic the , in according Hebrew ancient Scri Chinese to ptures Downing and writ it , or is - ,
the said golden that tradition apples s of are Hesperide preserved s in early Chinese mythology books , ; both of a Peach-tree of Lifewhich bore only once in a thousand years , but
the fruit of which , when eaten conferred immortality _; and of a Peach-tree of Knowledge , which had existed in remote ages on a
mountain guarded by a hundred demons , and " whose mortal ever taste broug be ht thoug death ht " of to those these who gatherings partook in of the its pro field duce of . fancy What , it
would may seem to be a -fact that the ordinary fruit ( for no sucker of looked those divinel on rather y-gifted as a food trees than survives as an in occasional these degenerate luxuryfor days " Tao ) is
-, word yuen , " in translated China to " a peach hilosop -tree hical and a retirement spring , " is a a say common ing derived
byfrom the history of express one p of their sages who soug , ht solitude in a desertand found h to satisfy all the wants of nature in these
two sources , of nourishment enoug the only ones it afforded . Considering fruit the large a carp per ing centage Diogenes of mi water , ght even shown then in perhaps the anal have ysis of called the ri the pe
, spring But a however luxurious abundant _siipexfluity peaches . may be in China , there is no such in
the country United in the States world , while Chinese where , as regards they are the quality grown eastern , those in States of _quantity America artificial as
suraid pass is all generall except y required the , but . in In many parts they grow som almost e sponand landthousands
of taneousl acres y are ; and devoted in New to Jersey this crop , Delaw to supp are , ly New Maiy York , and Phila-
46 Fruits In Their: Season ,
46 FRUITS IN THEIR : SEASON ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 46, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/46/
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