On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    FRUITS KST THEIR SEASON 5£

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    , . , —' Xi. The Peach. Its Itaxy *' Hom...

    growing on peach-trees , and even sometimes on . the same branch with peaches , and it is now believed that they are only an accidental

    by variet sowing y of the their peach seeds , usuall . The y , _thoug finest h not known invariabl the is the y , Bost to be tree on ' perpetuated nectarine des ,

    produced originally from a peach-stone ; parent was - troyed when in full fruit by some mischievous boys , but its seeds _produced descendants which now afford the largest and most

    beautiful fruit of the kind in America : and when some years back a drawing of one , measuring 8 j inches in circumference , was sent to

    the London Horticultural Society , no one would believe that it could be correctuntil a few years after Mr . Knight exhibited some

    equally fine specimens , which he had grown here from its seed . The leaves of the peach are used in £ he Greek islands to dye silk

    green : and the color called / . " rose-pink" is extracted from the wood of the tree . The fruit is noted rather for its passive than its

    active virtues , for while Pliny , after mentioning that it is more wholesome than the plum , bursts into the exclamation , " Indeed ,

    what fruit is there that is more wholesome as an aliment than this !'' yet no special power over the human frame has been attributed

    to it ; and very notwithstanding its wholesomeness it may become very injurious should its charms-tempt the eater to excess . It did the

    world good service _oneei indeed , through this very characteristic ; and having had the honor of ridding England of a tyrant , deserves

    quite as well to be held in grateful remembrance by the patriotic as did the " little tleman in black velvet" to be immortalized in

    the toasts of the Jacobites gen ; for it was due to no poison in the fruit , but simplbecause with jaded body and irritated mind he " ate

    gluttonousl y y of peaches , " at his _, last meal in Swineshead Abbey , that King John closed so abruptly his inglorious career . A great

    love all genius voluptuaries the of . _terrors this Groethe fruit , but his has records is father speciall , however in held y the associated , by over memorials no him mean with had of s been more his failed youth confined than to , one control how to man , mere after Ms of

    childish _, fear , of going to sleep aLone in the dark , his mother ' s soothing promise of an unlimited peach-feast on the morrow proved

    a sufficiently strong incitement to conquer himself at night in order _Tbest that remembered he might not portrait lose the too promised which his reward biograp in the hers morning have given . The of

    the poet of Indolence is , that , which represents him as lounging about the Leasowes with his hands in his pockets , and languidly

    ness lifting hung who dem was upon Ms anded so head the fond quantity wall to of bite . this Less off as fruit the well dainty sunny that as , qualit because side y h of to . more as appease a growing Boswell greed his y peach , luxurious Johnson " as he it - , thougsays

    would , eat seven or eight large peaches of a , morning before break , - as dinner fast _muclj began again _vaB , he , and yet wished treated I have of w heard them all-frui him with t , exc protest proportionate ept onc that e in he his never attention life . had " There q after uit © B 2

    Fruits Kst Their Season 5£

    FRUITS _KST THEIR _SEASON 5 £

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 51, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/51/