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      Society owes its very existence and success , will receive with gratitude any subscriptions that this appeal may elicit , and also answer

      with pleasure any further inquiries that may seem desirable .

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      254 Fruits In Theih Season.

      254 FRUITS IN THEIH SEASON .

      Xxxix.—Fruits In Their Season. Iii. Ittj...

      XXXIX . —FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON . III . _ITTJTS TO CRACK .

      $. Pheasant Are The Fresh Fruits That De...

      _$ . _PHEASANT are the fresh fruits that deck our Christmas dessert : the golden-juiced orangethe late lingering pearand the sturdy

      apple with its glowing cheek , . Pleasant too are those , of which art has preserved the flavor , though she has failed to retain their

      beauty : the dried iig , the raisin , or the date ; but who _woiild not forego them all rather than spare the standard , but ever welcome ,

      dish of nuts , welcome at all seasons , but most of all at this . The former are procured so easily and disposed of so quickly that they

      afford but a momentary pleasure ; but these cost time and trouble to obtainmust be -wooed ere they are wonand earned ere they are

      , , eaten , * and therefore when , in Homer ' s favorite phrase , " the rage of hunger is appeased" and only something is wanted as a

      pretext-, for protracting a little longer the rites of hospitality , is their aid so gladly evoked to fill up the pauses of conversationto cover the

      silence of the dull , and enhance the merriment of the livel , y , as they crack their jokes and their nuts together . Genial nuts ! whether

      it be the husk-hid filbert or bare brown barcelona ; the eye-shaped almond , enshrined in yellow walls of soft porous sand-stone , or the

      sterner brazil in its granite fortress ; 'the kingly walnut in its coat of mailor the glossy chestnut in smooth shining suit ; we love

      , ye all , and would fain linger awhile to gather up some fragments of your history .

      First and foremost , because commonest and most popular , attention is claimed by what are usually called " Nuts" par eminence ,

      i . e ., the various members of the hazel tribe rejoicing together in the gentle name of Avellanaor Avelanwhichas Evelyn informs

      , , , us , was the ancient orthography of his name also , and was originally derived from Avellanoa city of Napleswhere this fruit was very

      largely cultivated . The , poetical Northern , mind devised a more descriptive name , the word hocsil in Anglo-Saxon _signifying' a

      headdress , in allusion to the covering with which all of the family are more or less cappedsuch of them as have a short calyx being

      , generally called nuts , while those with long enveloping husks are termed filberts . To the former class of course belong those

      wildings of the wood , connected with so many tender reminiscences of youthful yearswhen the most delihtful of all holidays was that

      , g which was _sjDeiit in " going a nutting _! " Does not the very naming

      of them recall the setting forth on some joyous autumn morning—

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    • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 254, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/38/