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    FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 257

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

    balance not Sometimes come of forth the it , sexes to happens meet and their that the mates nature spring until has flowers the not beg come dul inning y attended out of in Febru all to their ary the .

    for it gay is them attir by i . e to In find gration this th case at , th no , at as sob the wlien er- equilibrium suited nobler j > beings _& rta must _-ers are have be similarl restored been y provided situate . The ,

    sessin s discovery carce g ly a any number of fruit this , expedient of at filbert length -trees is suspected due which to the what for Rev twenty mi . G ght . Swayne be years the , had reason who borne pos of

    from their wild unproductiveness hazel trees , and ended gathering them in a the number er of branche male s catkins of his - trees , a plan which , proved , susp so effectual that he upp gathered had more fruit

    from them in the course of that one year than he during left the untouched whole twent in y previous order to years test , the even experiment though a , few had which produced had been but

    boring benefit their usual farmer by his scant ' , s experience wife y harvest , whose , . he trees Generousl communicated had y long desirous cumbered the that secret others the to a ground nei should value gh- ,

    th always at she remaining testified her barren atitude , and the next information season by proved presentin of g such him with which six pounds for of very fine gr had filberts never , the borne produce a sing of le four nut . old stunted trees many years

    The hazel is a native of all the temperate climates of Europe and Asia lace . until It develops the second but slowly , after the germination it has been p of laced the seed in the not ground taking ,

    p year bush and when . Art its however full growth has found is attained means , , if by left confining to nature it , to it a is sing but le a

    stemto elevate , it into , a treebut the force of example is needed to induce , thisfor it does not take , place unless the young scion be

    p beneath lanted among the , shade other of trees its more of natur eminent ally taller companions growth , when it is drawn , thriving up

    b of y even them thirt to emulate feetwith their a loftier trunk proportions a foot in , diameter and , attains . The a hei fruit ght y

    thoug ing . habit h in of such its roots cases , was is earl sacrificed y noticed to , the and timber drew . upon The it the spread ill - -

    will of the Romansmanifested in a way which seems almost to savor of petty malice , , for believing that its subterranean which incursions

    made sacrificed it inj to urious Bacchus to vines on account , the entrails of their of vineyar the goat d s depredations were

    were tried filberts always with roasted his upon Falernian hazel and spits they . If had the h j armonized olly god had with ever it

    but such half an indi as well gnity as being they do offered with , to sherry the , p so lant far , he from would countenancin surely have g

    " abhorred the sacrifice and cursed the priest . " ever growth The , do ; hazel not the - come nuts common broug exactl " S ht y panish from to our " the or tables place superior whose are " mostly Barcelona name little they of , " forei to bear how the gn , - but mostlshipped at Ta port a

    are y arragona ,

    Fruits In Their Season. 257

    FRUITS IN THEIR _SEASON . 257

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 257, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/41/