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258 FRUITS IN THEIH SEASON.
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$. Pheasant Are The Fresh Fruits That De...
south of it . An enormous quantity are annually imported to this countrythe total in 1852 amounting " according to _M'Culloch ,
to 211928 , bushelsand this too when the , duty was no less than 2 s . \\ d , _. per bushel , , thus bringing to the national revenue an
income of £ 22 , 517 , and in 1853 a still greater impetus "was given to the tradebthe reduction of the duty to only one shilling per
bushel . Nuts , y of this kind have sometimes been made into bread , and into puddings , little , if at all , inferior to those composed of
almondsand a sort of chocolate has also been prepared from them . The home , -grown fruit of the species which is in most esteem is
the long-calyxed filbert , a name supposed by some to be derived from " full beard" in allusion to that appendagewhile others
incline to the mor , e poetical etymology assigned by , Gower in his < c Confessio Amantis " : —
" Phillis Was That shape all men into it mi a nutte ht see tree g
And This after tree was Phillis cleped , Philb . " ,
One variety , however , is called " Lambert Nut , " a name considered to be a corruption of the German _" Long-bart Nuss" or _long--bearded
, nut . The filbert is a thoroughly English fruit , and grows to greatest perfection about Maidstone , where it is sometimes planted between
rows of fruit-trees in apple or cherry orchards , but when grown for the sake of the nuts it thrives best by itself , unshaded by other trees .
The fruit should not be gathered until fully ripe and brown , quite late in the autumn , when they can be preserved for some months by
keeping" them on dry floors or in sand , the fruiterers restoring their colorwhen the husks become dingyby . fumigating them with
sulhas phur been . , They beforehan cannot , d however with them , stop . the , " Bah ravages ! a bad of one one enemy / 7 exclaims , who
nlany an unlucky nut-seeker , hastily dropping the shells , as instead of the delicate kernel he had expecteda softfatwhite maggot
, , , rolls wriggling on the dessert plate . This plump fellow was deposited here by his mother in the form of a tiny single egg , while the
nut was so young and tender that the wound soon healed , and the hole by which he had entered became invisible . In about a
fortnight he emerged from the egg , and began to exercise his appetite on the soft lining of the nut-shell ; then , with jaws grown stronger ,
attacked the kernel ; and had his abode been left undisturbed until that was all despatchedwould by that tinfe have acquired sufficient
strength to gnaw a little , hole through its hard shell , then contracting as much as his luxurious living would allow , would have
_sqtieezed through , this narrow portal and let himself out , leaving his late home filled with the black powder of his excrementitious
matter . Having no feet wherewith to support himself ( for what should he have done with such appendages when he had no room to
travel , and nothing to do but to eat ?) he would have fallen at once
258 Fruits In Theih Season.
258 FRUITS IN THEIH SEASON .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 258, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/42/
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