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berberries;[1] filberds; musk-melons; monks-hoods,[2] of all colours. In September come grapes; apples; poppies of all colours; peaches; melocotones;[3] nectarines;[4] cornelians; wardens;[5] quinces. In October, and the beginning of November come services;[6] medlars;[7] bullaces;[8] roses cut or removed to come late; holly-oaks;[9] and such like. These
- ↑ Berberry. The barberry (Berberis Vulgaris), commonly spelled and pronounced 'barberry.' It is a shrub that is found native in Europe and North America, with spiny shoots, and pendulous racemes of small yellow flowers, succeeded by oblong, red, sharply acid berries.
- ↑ Monk's-hood. Aconite, of the Ranunculaceae, or Crowfoot family. In England monk's-hood is especially Aconitum Napellus, which is also called friar's-cap, fox-bane, helmet-flower, Jacob's chariot and wolf's-bane. Gray records two American aconites, Aconitum Uncinatum, or Wild Monk's-hood, with blue flowers, and Aconitum Reclinatum, or Trailing Wolf's-bane, with white flowers.
- ↑ Melocotone. Melocoton, or Melocotoon, a large kind of peach. "A wife here with a strawberry breath, cherry lips, apricot cheeks, and a soft, velvet head, like a melicotton." Ben Jonson. Bartholomew Fair. i. 1.
- ↑ Nectarine. A variety of the common peach, from which its fruit differs only in having a rind devoid of down, and a firmer pulp. Both fruits are sometimes found growing on the same tree.
- ↑ Wardens. The warden is a large pear used chiefly for roasting or baking. Cotgrave defined this pear as "poire de garde, a warden, or winter peare, a peare which may be kept verie long."
"I must have saffron to colour the warden-pies."
Shakspere. The Winter's Tale. iv. 2.
- ↑ Services. The fruit of Pyrus (Sorbus) Domestica, a tree that belongs to continental Europe. It grows from twenty to sixty feet high, has leaves like those of the mountain ash or rowan tree, and bears a small pear-shaped or apple-shaped fruit, which, like the medlar, is pleasant only in an over-ripe condition.
- ↑ Medlars. The fruit of the medlar, a small bushy tree, Mespilus Germanica, related to the crab-apple, cultivated in gardens for its fruit. The fruit resembles a small, brown-skinned apple, but with a broad disk at the summit surrounded by the remains of the calix lobes. When first gathered, it is harsh and uneatable, but in the early stages of decay it acquires an acid flavor relished by some.
- ↑ Bullaces. The wild plum (Prunus Insititia), larger than the sloe, well known in England as a semi-cultivated fruit; there are two varieties, the black or dark blue, and the white. Like the persimmon, the bullace is astringent until frost comes.
- ↑ Holly-oaks. Hollyhocks (Althea Rosea), the well-known garden flower widely cultivated in many varieties, with showy blossoms of various tints of red, purple, yellow, and white.
