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FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 167
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increasing lass are becoming attention frequent is being , and paid vineyards to their are culture established , vineries in under some
g of the wilder Statesthere is room for our Transatlantic cousins to hope that the rosy , god may yet smile upon them , and eventuall other y
crown their bowl with a native nectar free from vulpine or any offensive taint . In some parts of South America ( as in Chili and Mexico ) wine
has been made for years past with very fair success ; we have daily proof of the id improvement taking place in the quality and
rap nearl quantit ten y produced since in the a British le was possessions received in in Africa London ; and of wine it is from now samp
Australia y of years such a quality as to promise that whenever the colonists there , may be able and willing to to turn fear their that attention the climate to will its
offer manufacture obstacle , there to will their be success little reason . We of this quarter of the globe need any not therefore be _iinder apprehension of sharing the fate of
ancient Romeor dread the any invasion of some Brennus of the New Worldattracted , from his own grapeless land by the charms of our
vines , and determined no longer to leave us in undisturbed possession of , such a luxury . There is every prospect too attain that as its the hi rei hest gn
of lorification the vine extends in bein , the dedi grape cated will to the more noble widel service y of the winepress g ; for g this after , all is the g grand use of the vine , and that to which all
its other uses are by comparison merely incidental and unimportant . material Other fruits n _\ ay please it is the the palate proud as prerogative well , but thi of s the is serving kingly a grape ' mere
to minister purpose to the ; mind , and though it is true it does not stand quite alone other in substance this , yet to it is which its lofty a portion distinction of this to power reign supreme is permitted over .
Let every sensuality and intemperance pervert it as they will , it is in itself a good and not an evil , and was given by the irit source It is of too all true good that to
the " cheer ift the has heart often of been man" abused and gladden so much his sp so that . legislators have sometimes g attempted wholly to interdict , it ; and it is said that the land of China
b finding grape y imperial has the once heavy decree or ; tax twice indeed he been had , tradition entirety laid upon records rooted wine that out insufficient of one the celestial to restrain despot ,
headlong the his s temp ubjects tin into g from fluid it using Nature , and it then however to excess forced cannot , ordered 3000 be of a permanentl its lake votarie to be s y filled to thwarted plunge with ,
that something and it is has commonl mostl worse y . has been attributed taken found its to that p wine lace where , besides the reall which vine be has , much traced been of b to the anished other evil may y
sources . In the y words of Cyrus Redding , one of the highest authorities country among on , the if such the intemperate a pur subject e juice ; who " of There the can gr are ap lay e few be the indivi understood fault dual _uj that _> s on comp by _oioerates wine that ar in ativel term . this the y . It is the produce of the still mingled with wine .
Fruits In Their Season. 167
FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 167
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/23/
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