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    FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 93

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    Alili About Appies. If Ancient And Honor...

    _surface of the ground , which -with , proper care may become a tree , _and therebpreserve the original of this favorite old dessert apple . ' *

    Another y variety which has been very popular of late years is the prettlittle Lady Appleor Apiwhich is usually seen in Covent

    Oarde y n tricked out in a , gay vestment , of colored tissue paper . Of very ancient family are these little Ladiesfor it is said that

    , they were brought from Peloponnesus to Rome by Appius Claudius , and they are mentioned by the oldest writers on such subjects as

    -well-known fruits . Worlidge , in 1676 , notices u the Pomme Aa curious apple lately propagated ; the fruit is small and

    reason pleasant ppease they , , which yield the no unp Madams leasant of scent France . " Lister carry , in in 1698 their , pockets speaking , by of

    Its being served Lip in a dessert at Paris , describes it as " very beautiful , and very red on one side , and pale or white on the other , and may

    serve the ladies at their toilets as a pattern to paint by ; " a remark worthto have been inspired by a Parisian atmosphere . The

    susceptibilit be taken y y to li advantage ght and shade of to , shown form b devices y this contrasted on the fruit comp before lexion it , may has

    attained its full depth of rosiness , by affixing pieces of paper , cut in the form required , to the side _exjDosecl to the sun , when the _j _>& rts

    thus covered will remain of a pale tint . It is grown now to a large extent in the United Statesand imported here with much profit to

    those concerned , as it always , bears a higher price than any other fancy apple in the market , justifying the title bestowed on it by

    De Quintinye , of the " Pomme des Damoiselles et de bonne compagnie . " It should be eaten without paring , as it is in the skin

    that the perfume resides . Wholesome and pleasant as is the apple in its natural state , the

    field of its usefulness becomes greatly enlarged "when it is subjected to the of cookery . Ellisin the " Modern Husbandman , "

    particularizes processes the Catshead as " a , very useful apple to the farmer , because one of them pared and wrapped up in dough , serves , with

    little trouble , for making an apple dumpling , so much in request with the Kentish farmer , for being part of a ready meal that in

    the cheapest manner satiates the keen appetite of the hungry p got loug into hman such , both reput in ation the field in Hertfordshire and at home and , and some therefore other counties has now ,

    that it is become the most common food , with a piece of bacon , or pickled pork , for families . " Dr . Johnson mentions having known a clergyman of small income who brought up a family very

    respectably , which he chiefly fed upon apple dumplings ; and it is to be hoped they kept some relish for the fare in after days , if there be

    any truth in the dictum of Coleridge , that " no man has lost all simplicity of character who retains a fondness for apple dumplings . "

    Our forefathershoweverbelieved that the fruit was good for something more , than either , to fill hungry stomachs or to please

    the palate . " Being roasted and eaten with rose-water and sugar , "

    jsaith Coles , in his " Adam in Eden , " published in 1657 , " those

    Fruits In Their Season. 93

    FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 93

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 93, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/21/