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¦ PJJUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 91
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Alili About Appies. If Ancient And Honor...
that it was introduced , as some have thought , by the Eomans . It was adopted as tile "badge of one of the highland clansand a branch
of apple was the mark of distinction conferred on the , Welsh bards who most excelled in minstrelsy . It must have been early set apart
for special culture , since in a charter of King John , granting property to a priorymention is made of " twelve acres of land and an
orchard" and the , same word has even been found in yet older documents . Varieties "were probahl - y introduced from Normandy and
other parts of the continent , though little information about them is to be gathered from early writers on fruit cultivation , one in
particular giving an account of apples almost as long and as interesting as the famous chapter on the snakes of Irelandsince he simply
remarks in reference to the subject , " I nede not to , describe thys tree , because it is knowne well enough in all countries . " The oldest
existing variety on record in England is that which Phillips apostrophizes
as" the fair Pearinaine , Tempered like comeliest nymph with , white and red "it being noticed as an article of cultivation in Norfolk as early as
the year 1200 , a tenure in that county having been held by the yearlayments of " two-hundred pearmainesand four hogsheads
of pearma y p ine cyder . " The derivation of the , name , according to Hoggis similar to that of Charlemagnesometimes written
Charlemaine , and which meaning Carolus Magnus , , the former may be taken as mean , ing Pyrus Magnus , or the great pear-apple , the shape bearing
some resemblance to that of a pear . In the time of Charles I . " orcharding" as it was calledbecame general throughout this
counof try app , and les the . Evel seventeenth , yn published century , an may appendix be looked to his on S as ylva the " golden under age the
title of " Pomona , " which did much to bring the subject under public attention , and , by the exertions of the first Lord Scudamore ,
Herefordshire in particular became , as it has been expressed , " one entire orchard . " This gentleman , the son of Sir James Scudamore , from
whom Spenser is said to have drawn the character of Sir Scudamore in the Faerie Queen , was in the company of the Duke of Buckingham
when he was assassinated by Felton at Portsmouth , and received such a shock from witnessing this catastrophe that he retired into
private life , and devoted all his energies to the culture of fruit . That kind to which he gave most attention was a variety which is
believed to have originated during _, this century , and which was at first called the Scudamore Crab , but afterwards known as the
Redstreak . It was Evelyn ' s favorite also , and indeed a modern author —leaving out of view probably the fatal gifts of Paris , and all that
grew therefrom—remarks concerning it , that " perhaps there is no apple which at any period created such a sensation , " so much having
been said and written about it during the seventeenth century . Phillipsof "Slendid Shilling" celebritywho wrote an entire
poem in , Virgilian p measure upon " cyder , / ' which had also the _o 2
¦ Pjjuits In Their Season. 91
¦ PJJUITS _IN THEIR _SEASON . 91
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 91, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/19/
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