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90 . FRUITS IjST THEIR SEASON.
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Alili About Appies. If Ancient And Honor...
widely distributed . Several varieties are peculiar to Russia , tlie most noteworthbeing the White Astracanwhich is distinguished
by the singular y circumstance of not only becoming , almost transparent when ripe , but of being covered with a copious and delicate
bloom , exactly similar to that waxy secretion which clouds the plum or grape with its beautiful azure mist . The tree is likewise found
in some parts of India , and an attempt was made some years ago to introduce it into the northern part of that continentwhen a
, single tree , in consequence of being the only one which survived , cost upwards of seventy pounds before it was planted in the nursery
at Mossuree . Leaving out of question the fruits figuring in ancient history or
fable , for which the modern equivalents cannot be exactly ascertained , it is held to be proved that the common apple was known to very
remote ages , and is mentioned by Theophrastus and Herodotus . Among the Thebans it was offered to Herculesa custom derived
, _froin the circumstance of a river having once so overflowed its ordinary limits as to prevent a sheep being carried across it for a
sacrifice to the labor-loving God , when some youths , on the strength of the Greek word melon signifying both a sheep and an apple ,
stuck four wooden pegs into the fruit to represent legs , and brought the vegetable quadruped thus extemporised as a substitute for the
usual offering , after which the apple was always looked on as specialldevoted to Hercules . It isof coursedescanted on by
tender Pliny : skins y "Of app to be les , pared " says off he , there , " that be , is many to say sorts , of , / 7 fruits and many that indeed have
we might expect , if so liberal a definition of the name were accepted . Concerning the crab , he continues , _" This gift they have for their
harsh sourness , that they have many a foul word and shrewd curse nimity given them if the ; " affording flavor of a us fruit no very could di so gnifie violentl d view y disturb of Roman it . — equa After
-, g amounting iving * a list to of about the twenty fruits known , he add in s , his "So day as , in the thi varieties s point veril of app y the les is
world is growne alreadie to the highest pitch , insomuch as there not a fruit but men have made trial and many experiments , for even in Virgil ' s days the devise of grafting strange fruits was very rife ;
considering that he speaks of the arbute-tree graffed on nut-trees , ih . e lane le-treesand the elm upon cherry-stocks . In
such p sort as upon I see app not how men , can devise to proceed farther . And certes for this long time there hath not been a new kind of apple
or of other fruit heard of . " Pomology , nevertheless , has progressed somewhat since those Plinian days of "highest pitch , " seeing that
some thirty years ago no less than fourteen hundred varieties of les were enumerated in the catalogue of the Horticultural Society .
app As the tree grows wild throughout almost the whole of Britain , and as the name apple ( in CelticAbhaT ) is considered by the best
authorities to be derived from the pure , Celtic Ball , signifying a round
body , it is more probable that it is indigenous to this country than
90 . Fruits Ijst Their Season.
90 . FRUITS _IjST THEIR _SEASON .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 90, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/18/
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