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92 FRUITS I1ST THEIR SEASON.
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Alili About Appies. If Ancient And Honor...
honor of being translated into Italian , in this very apotheosis of " apples thus exalts this idol of the day : —
" ! W Let The ith every Redstreak gold tree irradiate in as every supreme and garden vermilion , whose own shines pulpous fruit
Primeval Tempting interdicted , not fatal , as lant the that birth won of that , Fond Eve in hapless hour p to taste and die .
This , of more bounteous influence , inspires P Kindles oetic raptures to loftier , and strains the lowl ; even y muse I perceive
Her sacred virtue . See ! the numbers flow Hers Easy , and whilst my cheer country 'd with ' s praises her nectareous I exalt . " juice
Alas for the power of fashion , even in the matter of _apjDles—the redstreak is now held but in slight esteem !
After this period , pomology declined , until some years ago a new impetus was given to it by the first President of the London
Horticultural Society , T . A . Knight , Esq ., who first practically and systematically applied the discovery of the sexes of plants , and by
hybridization , or transferring the _jDollen of one kind of blossom to the stiof anotherwas the means of producing- many new and
valuable gmas varieties . It , is a singular fact , however , that all attempts have failed to fecundate an apple by a pear tree , it being found
that they will not produce a hybrid . Perhaps the best known of all our apples at the _jDresent day is
the universally admired Ribstone Pippin , the genealogy of which has been a subject of much discussion . In an interesting statement
furnished to the Horticultural Society by Sir EL Goodriche , on whose estate at Ribstonein Yorkshirethe oriinal tree was discovered
, , g growing , lie states , that " traditionary accounts are all we have to guide us in the history of this tree . It is said that some apple pips
were brought from Rouen , in Normandy , about 130 years ago ; that proving they now fam were crabs ous sown Rib and stone at the Ribstone other Piin three ; . that It app _Rve had les of been . the One suspected pi of ps these grew that latter , two the of was fruits them the
might after all have been pp produced by grafting ( thoug h , the name would then have been a misnomerthe word pippin implying that
suckers the tree were has grown taken from from the a seed old or root p , ip and ); and lanted to determin in the e gardens this , some at
Chiswickwhen all doubts were dissipated p , by their growing and producing , fruit exactly similar to that of the parent tree . That
nothing like it has ever been discovered among all the foreign specimens of apples received by the Society also tends to prove that
the variety is of native growth . The original tree , supposed to have been lanted in 1688 stood till 1810 when it was blown
down by a vi p olent gale of wind , , but , being supported , by stakes in a horizontal position , continued to produce fruits until 1835 , when it
lingered te a young shoot died . has " " been Since produced then , " says about Mr . Hogg four inches writing below in 1851 the
92 Fruits I1st Their Season.
92 FRUITS I 1 _ST THEIR SEASON .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 92, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/20/
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