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    332 PRUITS IN THEIR SEASON.

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    tent and a few sunny days brought them to their full ' maturity . " On the other handit is said that a means of hastening the

    ripening of cherries , was adopted , at Poitou so early as in the sixteenth century , hot lime-stones "being laid upon the ground under

    the trees , and hot water poured upon the soil , by which method ripe fruit was obtained by the 1 st of May , and immediately

    forwarded by post to Paris . Though cherry-gardens are less numerous than formerly in Kent ,

    fruit plantations are still considered the most valuable estates in that county , and this fruit in particular continues to be its _speciality

    Boys observing that cherry-gardens while in full bearing are more , profitable than orchards , though their prime seldom lasts more

    than thirty years , after which-period orchards are found to produce the most money . The variety for -which it is most famouswhich

    , is named from it the " Kentish Cherry , " and which is supposed io be tlie original sort brought by Haines from Flanders , is

    distinguished by the peculiarity that it suffers the stone to be plucked from within it in much , the same style as Richard " robbed

    the kingly lion of his heart , " the stalk establishing so firm a hold upon it by means of the fibres which link them together

    that it may be withdrawn by laying hold of that appendage , leaving * the fruit seemingly whole in the hand of the gatherer .

    The Kentish cherry is one of the best kinds for cooking , and its application to culinary purposes is greatly facilitated by this easy

    removal of what Pliny , in the presumption of his antique ignorance , ventures to call the " faulty superjftuity , " which , in the case of

    cherries , is , as he phrases it , " environed by the good fruit , whereas fruit otherwise is ordinarily defended by the said imperfection ( _I )

    of the shell . " Verily , censures , when cast upon the arrangements of Nature , like curses , " come home to roost . "

    The Morello , so called either from the dark juice being like that of the mortisor mulberry , or from the French word morellea

    , , negress , on account of its swarthy , shining skin , is another of our most valuable kinds of cherries , and though so austere when

    exposed to a northern aspect as to be only fit for making preserves or putting in brandy , when trained against a south wall , its rich

    juicy fruit , larger than any other of the tribe , is excellent for the dessert , that is , if left a sufficient time to mature , for cherries , like

    grapes , can hardly be over-ripened , and are often of inferior quality solely on account of being gathered too soon . It is , however , the

    small black cherry which grows wild in several parts of England , particularly in some places in Suffolk , where it is commonly called

    the merry tree , which is mostly used in the manufacture of cherrybrandy . These black cherries abound also in Bedfordshire and Herts ,

    and wlien they are in season give occasion "for- " pasty feasts , " at which pasties made of them form the principal feature . At Ely , in

    Cambridgeshire , too , a special " Cherry Sunday" is observed , on which people repair to orchards in the neighborhood , and for a small

    pay-( x

    332 Pruits In Their Season.

    332 _PRUITS IN THEIR SEASON .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 332, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/44/