The Guardian (Volume 24-25) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE GTJAKDIAK Vol. XXIV. APRIL, 1873. No. 4. THE FRUIT-GROWERS IN COUNSEL, BY THE EDITOR. " I own that I am sometimes distressed at the manner, in which, during these latter days, we are too prone to look upon our fruits. By this last appellation I would, of course, comprehend at present not all vegetable productions, but only those variously tinted, rounded, succulent, and in many cases, redolent esculents, which are dependent from our trees. The apple, considered s a nosegay merely, without any reference to its edible contents, every person, one would suppose, who had his senses in proper harmony, should acknowledge to be most delectable."?Prof. William M. Kevin. On the 23d of a certain January I traveled between Terracina and Naples. The air was balmy; the apple and pear trees all along the road were in blossoms; the atmosphere was laden with pleasant odors, and the orange-groves looked charming. Among their dark-green leaves hung the large golden fruit. At Castallone de Gaeta I paused a few hours. Through Cicero's villa, I leisurely strolled, where the grand Roman orator had a country-seat. In rambling, I came to a large orange-grove. The luscious yellow fruit lay thickly strewn about under the trees, and hung still more thickly from their boughs. As many as 1 could eat, 1 was at full liberty to pick up. It was a sight as pleasant to behold as the fruit was sweet to the taste. As a great German poet has it: " Kennst du das Land wo die Citronen bluhen, Im dunklen Laub die gold Orangen gluhen?" Knows't thou the land where the Citrons do grow, Where, mid the dark leaves, golden Oranges glow? Even to the famous Gardens of Ht'sperides, bearing the golden apples of June, is this region compared by the German Muse: "In Hesperius Garten ppht man hier ein, es ...