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    FRUITS IN THEIK, SEASON. 97

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    p not Indi lum gen further ., ) which ous to north is Eng very than land commonl Wales is the y sloe thoug found , ( the h wild as Prunus it in will our _sj endure rinosa hedges _, or a , moister usuall thorny y

    , , climateit is sometimes found in Highland _yalleys , where the more fastidious , furze-Lush refuses to grow . Grown in open parks as a

    single tree , it may be reared to a height of even thirty feet , but in hedis rarelseen more than twenty feet high ; in Prancenever

    above ges fifteen feet y ; and it is generally far below that altitude , . Its ing root throws up such numerous suckers thatif left

    undisturbed creep , a single plant would , in the course of a few , years , spread over an acre of ground—a peculiarity which has led the French to

    bestow upon it the title of " Mere du JBois _, " for not only does it thus shelter multi to ply Itself seeds to of an timber enormous trees extent that , may but its be suckers dropped affording among

    them and indirect by birds any Influence , these too of thrive the sloe unusuall the y field , and In thus the , under course the of direct a few

    years , becomes a forest . This encroaching , , disposition makes the p boring lant very un erty suitable be for indefinitel boundary y varied hedges by , as Its the growth limits ; and of nei when

    ghonce established propmay it is no easy task effectually to serve an ejectment in upon the it , soil since will , even spring when grubbed again up and by become the roots a , sep every arate fibril plant left ,

    up making of multi the lication very . measure The onl taken y sure to method extirpate of making it only a head new again means st

    such pertinacious p power of vegetation is to oppose to -it the force of are animal fond voracity of the leaves ; and as of the all sloe cattle whether , and especiall fresh or y sheep dried and by calling goats ,

    in their aid tlie stems are gnawed , down even to the quick , , the shoots rise next feeblandagain consumedgive up the contest

    year very y , , , in The despair taste , seldom for sloe app leave earing s is again shared at all in in also the by third beings year of . higher

    consciousness nature , though of the its p source leasure they they being impart more is mostl often y used partaken as an of adulte in un - -

    ration than avowedly as a , substitute , but really taking the place of tea better than any other European plant yet known , having a

    peculiar aromatic flavor , ( shared in by the meadow-sweet and some of other China plant ' s peerless s , ) which leaf offers . Besides some resemblance its leaves from , tlie which to branches the d is elicat are much e perfume thickl less y

    easy armed to with heal than sharp those thorns made , the by wound the hawthorn , that Withering so suspects their action is chemical as well as mechanical , and that there

    must even days b of be efore March something its , own before leaves poisonous any have other in appeared fruit their -tree nature has the sloe blossomed . During unfolds , and the its small bleak often

    white _flowers , solitary , so far as that imp , lies tliat they do not grow in clustersbut thicklstrewn over the branchesand consisting of

    and five petals generall , , from y one twenty , but y to sometimes thirty stamens two , central with orange sty , les - . colored Balfour anthers says ,

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    Fruits In Theik, Season. 97

    FRUITS IN THEIK , SEASON . 97

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 97, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/25/