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100 FRUITS IN THEIE SEASON.
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* Xii. The Pi/Um. Fkom The Wave-Hollowed...
worse in . point of quality , besides tlie greater difficulty of gatheringitmagnitude is bno means desired . Pruning of the roots as well
as _, the branches is y resorted to to check its natural luxuriance , and the suckers , which it sends forth more freely than any other fruit
-tree , must be removed as soon as they appear—i . e . y nve or six times in the course of the summer—or not only will the harvest be deficient ,
but even the life of the tree will be endangered . Sometimes the trees begin to decay internally even when quite young , yet still
continue to bear fruit as abundantly as those of more healthy appearance . The different varieties are distinguished partly by the
surface of the young woods , -which in some is smooth , in some downy or covered with soft hairspartlby the ' fruit being divided , like
_peaches and those , int in o which those it in parts which ; freel the y y ; stone and adheres another firml very y decided to the mark flesh ,
of difference is seen in the suture or furrow which deeply indents one side of many plums , while in others it is scarcel characteristic y visible .
Some varietieshoweverhave features so individually as to be recognised , at a g , lance ; and among these may be classed the universallfamiliar damsonvalued by the poor for its abundance
y , as much as the greengage is by the wealthy for its delicacy , growing as it does in every cottage garden , and bringing often enormous
crops , and lingering later than any other plum . It is mentioned by introduced Pliny as the long Damascen since e into plum Ital , so called and he from remarks Damascus further in Syria that , but the
y ; , stone of this fruit is larger than usual and the flesh smaller in ' qualityet it will never dry so far as to wrinklethe sun of its
y , , native country being needed to produce this effect . "We have no quarrel with it on this ground , and are satisfied to dispense with its
drying while it maintains the character of being our best baking America plum , thousands to be made of bush into els winter being preserve sold an . nu The ally both muscle here is and also in a
, well-known good kind for culinary purposes , and the Orleans was formerly a favorite , but has been almost superseded of late years by
newer sorts . It is , however , in the greengage that the acme of plum perfection is reachedthis _famotis fruit being admittedeven by the
Americans , to surpass , every other kind that has been , produced in any country . No " account seems to have been preserved . of how or
where "France it "by ori Queen ginated Claude , but , wife it is of sai Franci d to s hav I ., e and been is generall introduced y known into
in that country as the " Reine Claude , " though in some parts bear-Tours ing local and epithets u la verte , mostl honne y comp " at limentary Rouen . , Its such Eng as lish " abricot title is vercl derived " at
from the , Gage family , a member of which , some time during last centuryprocured a collection of trees from the Chartreuse
monastery at , Paris , on the arrival of which all were found duly marked with names except the specimen of Heine Claudefrom which the
, label had been omitted or lost , whereupon the gardener , assuming
the sponsorial office , dutifully bestowed upon it the name of his
100 Fruits In Theie Season.
100 FRUITS IN THEIE SEASON .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 100, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/28/
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