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FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 99
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cultivated they are p in lanted pots in or preference boxes for private around nouses tlieir , temp as orange les , and -trees are are also in
_23 Europe lum tribe . " in The general beauty present of this no sloe very is the ornamental more remarkable appearance as , the the hand
double-blossoming plum , though sometimes bearing a large - some white flower , being very prorie to degenerate and become lant
sing The le , next and it step is always in plum inferior progress in is effect the bullace to the former , also sloe a is p wild armed . growth with
in ines England and , bears Germany a fruit , and which France is , which lobular , like in the shape , but , larger and varied sp , in colorbeing sometimes black g sometimes yellowish , tinged
with ance red it , is or much occasionall , less austere y quite forming red , and , very , a fair matter pies of and more other import culi-
-, , may nary be prep jud arations ged by . their When having cooked earne they d are in Provence not very attractive the name , as of to
Prunes sibarellesbecause from their sourness it is impossible whistle just after , having eaten them . tlie ineless
From the bullace we rise to the Prunes domestica , sp autumnal species , including feastsnone all the of which numerous are found varieties trul which wild furnish in Britain our . y
There ishowever , little record of their introduction , except a men-Perdri tion by Hakberg , ) being h , , in ' broug 1582 , ht of from the plum Ital called with the two Perdi kinds gwend more ( now , by
Lord Cromwell gone after his travel ; _" but Tusser y , , in 15 73 , had already enumerated ten sortsand Johnsonin 1633 says" To write of
p not lums to particularl be attained y would unto ; nor require the stocke a peculiar , or kindred volum , e , and , erfectl yet the known end py ,
neither to be distinguished apart . The number of the sorts are not known to any one country ; every climate hath his own . fruit far
different from that of other countries . Myself have three score sorts laces in my garden more , common and all and strange yet yearel and rare y cometh : there to be our in hands other
p others not many before known . " , The multiplication of new sorts having the begun Horticultural so early , it Society is not ' surprising s fruit catalogue to find that contained the third 127 edition varieties of ,
to American which ab _ori out inations twenty . more The tree may will now be added in almost , besides any fresh soil , grow
though it thrives g best in a strong rick one ; for in sand it is specially liable and its to shade become is considered a prey to insects rather , favorable and in clay than the otherwise fruit is to insi grass pid ;
_growing jontinues ncreasing beneath to in bear productiveness it good . It begins in till to favorable the bear twelfth in its seasons sixth year until , or after seventh decrep whi itude year ch it ,
3 omes on—a period which crops varies much in different varieties and iccording to soil and circumstances—though it is very rare to see a
) lum-tree more than 150 years old . The height varies from six fruit
t eet bear to s thirt , in y proportion feet ; but to as its the size larger and the the tree space becomes occup , ied the , less and the
Fruits In Their Season. 99
FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 99
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 99, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/27/
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