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    415 FRUITS US THEIR SEASON.

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    Summer's Light Fruits Have Long Since Fl...

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    ' derived the every term species Hesp ag of er ro idce , Citrus , as ; founde and Gralessio d and on fable therefore , after , and imperativel insufficient objecting t y to o rejecting citrus express as the of a species

    properl the opinion genus y that which name it would comprises derivative be advantageous both , that denoting and were others this the , word expresses cultivator agrumi his or of

    the agrumes plants , ( , with ) adop its ted into every agronome language , . From miht the not French do ill , too to , unless we could invent a better which name they , _- we distinguish g the bitter

    borrow kind of the fruit term , for which Bigarade we _, have by at present no more suitable title than " Seville oranges . '' has

    which ever appeared The most , is contained complete in colored a treatise folio volume and on life by oranges -sized Risso illustrations , published of at above Paris i 1818 which furnishes

    This a hundred writer , kinds , the with first a to full remark description the curious of every fact variet that y a grown sweet .

    bitter orange one may however was always similar be infallibl in form y distinguished or color , the vesicles from an containing acid or

    cave essential . In oil , limes being and in insi the pid former varieties always the according vesicles convex , are as in p the the lane juice latter , and of they con the

    become fruit from is all sweeter more other or known or less sourer convex lants . The or by concave orange several , curious he says , p too hysiolog , is distinguished ical characp

    teristics of under its peculiarities , which integument appear is that to as depend the many pip on as often a three peculiar contains or four organization several being found embryos . One in

    one and lemons , while in a poinmeloe Gaertner counted common no less than orange twenty s , though , the majority in were about imperfect ten or fifte . en days

    and bark The develops sometimes seed , when eventuall armed planted y into with , germinates an thorns evergreen on the tree young with greenish branches brown , the , feetThe

    full leaf -grown is , technicall tree often considered reaching as the a compound height of twenty one with -five but a . single

    Leaflet Laburnum , being and thus horse y - reckone chestnut d , in rather the than same with class such with as such the plum as the or much likelto

    Laurel assi , it to ; but which on a careful casual inspection observer would it may be be seen , that more continuation instead y of

    bhe £ the gn petiole midrib , or of leaf the -st leaf alk , being as with a other mere leaves uninterrup of similar ted shape , and

    y which _orange constitute it is a separate s their claim p , iece , to to be which called the simp part le is , therefore the in the case called charac of the the

    leaflet _teristic _lemon is and of articulated what lime are this calle by petiole a d distinct compound is a bare joint le stalk , aves which , . in Thoug the orange h special in the and citron shad - - , of leaf

    lock it , is winged , that is , it has on each side an expansion y

    415 Fruits Us Their Season.

    415 FRUITS US THEIR SEASON .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/55/