On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    164 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON.

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Ii.-^-Geape Gatherings. Whether Our Firs...

    obj fairest ect it t embraces of womanhood , tlie fertile . Well loving mi * vine ht the stands Psalmist forth , make the truest it his , g

    metaphor ype when he recounts among the chief joys of him whorn God hath thine blessed house . , ' * " Th And y wife how shall was its be typ like ical the si fruitful gnificanc vine e deepened by the sides when of

    chosen to shadow forth Him in whoni , as the representative of perleft priating fect humanit an * aureole it as y , His the of g own woman lory special around was blended symbol it for ever , with will declared , the " be I man am , in the easier , words and true "who task that Vine , appro have than . " - -

    But to dissect our plant botanically an mass to attempt of juicy to pul analyze enclosed it _aestheticall in a skin y . and The containing grape is loosel a true y b floating erry , a

    seedswhichaccording p to the most correct principles of vegetation , should , be five , in numberone for each anther of the flower , but as .

    vegetables , like more hig , hly organized beings , do not always act up to arrangement their princi of ples dame , one Nature or two ' s at which least however usually is remain rather abortive satisfactory , * an

    which than otherwise she usuall , especiall does m y atur at Christmas e are found tide quite , when sufficientl the three y trouble or four - y

    some to those whose department it is to " stone" the raisins . In p quite ity perhaps seedless to and busy Theop plum hrastus -puddin in g his preparers antique wisdom a few varieties sagely informs are left

    us how we mi , ght secure any sort becoming so , by simply extracting the pith _, with a proper instrument of horn htl or bone , from it round a twig and , as

    far as it is to be set in the ground , then ligy binding * setting it in moist earth to grow the and vine bring branch forth of a the pipless ith progeny whereof ;

    Another the " For stones , " saith prank are he of g , endered " the if wonder you , you rob -loving may secure ancients - grapes is set without forth p b , y stones Floren . " -

    tinus and Diophanes , who assert that if an olive-branch be drawn latter throug together adding h a and hole produc that bored in e the a in fruit the orchard partaking stem of of Marius a of vine the , Maximus the nature plants of he both will had grow ; both the

    seen and tasted , fruit of this kind , called Eleo-staphylus , or the Olivethe grape vine , and in which Italfurnishes was reputed oil to as be well common as wine in Africa a kind . being As it ex is - ,

    tracted from the y pips which is reckoned superior , to any other sort , either for eating or burning , as it has no odour and burns without smokeIn the form of raisins the vine furnishes no unimportant item

    . of ton commerce s annuall , y our , pay imports ing a , reckoned duty of in £ 160 1855 , 000 , amounted , besides to about about islands 6000 8000

    tons of currantsthe dried miniature grapes of the Greek . The Valentia raisins , , according to Laborde , are dipped in a ley made of ashes of vine branches and rosemary , to which a little slaked

    lime is addedand then spread on the rocks to dry , while those of Malaga Another traveller are , simply drie that d in the the ordinary sun without method any of cure prep is ar to ation cut . says

    the stalks of the bunches half through when the grapes are almost

    164 Fruits In Their Season.

    164 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON .

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 164, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/20/