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    FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON 89

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    Alili About Appies. If Ancient And Honor...

    ensconced . It Is well that they are thus entrenched , for " Somehow or other / ' writes an author in the JE ? itomolo (/ ical Magazine

    " the pips of an apple are connected with its growth , as the heart , of an animal with its life : injure the heartan animal dies _; injure

    , do the succeed pips , an in app piercing le falls * throug ; " and h thus all , these whenever strong any holds of its and insect storming foes

    the kernels in their inmost citadel , the poor _fruit , a living thing" no longer , drops down at once to seek a grave in the earth . An

    unimportant event truly !—and yet , once at least in the world ' s history , the fall of an apple proved of greater import than the fall of a

    kingdom ; when , in the quiet garden at Woolsthorpe , a busily devouring * grub penetrated to the centre of the codlin he was

    consuming" , snapped its connexion with the parent branch , and _broiight it to the feet of the sag * ewhose resulting speculations on " why an

    , apple falls , " resolved the question of how worlds are sustained . But this was an accident in apple life ; and it was doubtless for humbler

    purposes and more direct uses than to furnish philosophers , with food for reflectionthat the Pomese are scattered over the world .

    , Growing" spontaneously _throughout Europe , and in most other temperate climes , the tree asks for little depth of earth , for having no

    tap root , a single foot of soil will suffice it , and twice this quantity gives it ample scope ; but it is necessary that this little should be of

    a certain quality , so that its appearance may always be looked on as a mark of at least a tolerably good soil . Like most fruit-treesit prefers

    , calcareous earth , and geologists have noticed that the orchard counties of England follow the track of the red sandstone . Its

    shade is so kindly , that , in the Surrey nurseries , tender evergreens which would be injured by s _| _3 ring frosts , are always planted under

    its protecting * branches . In the wild state , it is seldom more than twenty feet highbesides being very crooked and small-leaved ; but

    , cultivation not only improves the fruit , changing the crab into the apple , in all its numerous varieties , but causes the leaves to become

    larger , thicker , and more downy , while the tree itself assumes a more regular formand attains a loftier height . In Scotlandtwenty-five

    , , feet is considered high ; near London , thirty feet is a fair standard ; in Herefordshire forty feet , and in North America , where it attains

    its greatest _j ) erfection , a famous pearmain in Koumey , in Virginia , is described as being forty-five feet high , and the trunk upwards of

    three feet in diameter , while the produce in one year amounted to no less than 200 _biishels , whereas the greatest amount on record in

    England , as having been gathered from one tree , is but * 100 pecks . This American giant was a seedlingand though forty years old

    , was still continuing 'to increase in magnitude . In the same country individual fruits likewise sometimes attain enormous size ; and

    according to Downing , the " Beauty of Kent" is to be found there "frequently measuring sixteen or eighteen inches in circumference . "

    In Siberia , the apple reaches its O _23 posite limit of smallness , and the tiny cherry-like crab , named after its native land , is found

    VOL . VI . _G-

    Fruits In Their Season 89

    FRUITS IN THEIR _SEASON 89

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 89, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/17/