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    FHUITS IN THEIR SEASON. 259

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

    to the ground , where , having already eaten enoug h , to last for tlie rest of liis lifelie would merelburrow a cell in the earth , change

    form into a th _jDup at of a , a and brown , then beetle soon about . after y a assume quarter his of an final inch and in handsomest length and

    characterized , hy _sl long slender black beak with a pair of elbowed antennse inserted near the middleso that the insect looks as though

    it had half swallowed Britannia ' , s tridentand left the forked end sticking out of its mouth . Such , when successful , in life , is the

    biograp But could hy of the a Bala intruding ninns _Nticum Balaninus . and its progeny be banished

    for ever from the filbert , the claims of that nut to be the best accompaniment for the decanter would even then be rivalled , if not

    surpassed moniousl , hy y wedded those of as one ever other was , for ( i music " wine to and sweet walnut song . s " " are as

    har" The fruit which we a nut , the gods an acorn call : says Cowley , Jove for the ' s acorn generic , " ' — name , " Juglans , " has di been supposed it with the to

    has nam mean e even of Jove Basilicon tried 's glans to , , or or the a that corn Royal ; the the Nut golden Greeks , while too the les learned gnified of the Hesp Dr . Sickler erides

    were no other than prove this same walnut . app " This fruit , " says he , in his _" Gesehiehte der Obst-cultur , " " was a gift brought by the Earth iter and bher

    to Junoon the occasion of her marriage with Jup ; y order a lace planted which , in seems the garden to have of been the to gods the , Greek not far poets from something Mount Atlas like ,

    what p Paradise was to the Hebrews . The daughters of King Atlas , it called , but collectivel seeing the y abundance the Hesperides of the , were fruit appointed , they neglected to take to charge cultivate whereon of

    ittill Nature thus left to herself became less productive , and sending they , prevent were a hundred punished them - from headed for their re-entering dragon unfaithfulness to it . drive At last them by , the however out hantl angry of this bore , divinities Hercules Eden ,

    the one came of golden to the the descendants _ajDp garden les . , killed This of fable the the dragon Hesperidean may be , and tran triump exiles slated fruitful , who thu land y s had : viz whence settled ., away that

    he in away Greece had tr some avel emi , but he of gr its ated discovered still delicious , . preserved undertook the growth a to lace tradition seek to he their , this of adop the ht happy . ted The country soil convulsion , and . brin After of g long soug

    the earth , typified by the dragon p , which had driven away the come original b inhabitants his daring , was and either the fruit over , was or else successfull the obstacl y transp e was lanted over- .

    "We find y too that this , hero travelled towards the West and returned eastward to his native land . But what was the fruit thus obtained ?

    Various indeed have been the conjectures , some considering" it to determined even have deciding been the by finall orange fixing y on or on the lemon the quince _apjDellatioii , others ; but the all ' golden pomegranat these guesses ' and e ,, connecting have and some been %

    Fhuits In Their Season. 259

    _FHUITS IN THEIR SEASON . 259

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 259, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/43/