. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . hendissolved in water. The apricot attains the size ofa large tree in Japan. It also flourishes in suchabundance upon the Oases, as to be dried and car-ried to Egypt as an article of commerce. In thosesultry climates, the flavour is exquisite, though thefruit is small. Gough, in his British Topograj^hy, states that theapricot-tree was first brought to England, in 1524,by VVoolf, the gardener to Henry VIII. Gerardhad two varieties in his garden. The Pluji—Prunus domestica. The plum appears to be sti
. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . hendissolved in water. The apricot attains the size ofa large tree in Japan. It also flourishes in suchabundance upon the Oases, as to be dried and car-ried to Egypt as an article of commerce. In thosesultry climates, the flavour is exquisite, though thefruit is small. Gough, in his British Topograj^hy, states that theapricot-tree was first brought to England, in 1524,by VVoolf, the gardener to Henry VIII. Gerardhad two varieties in his garden. The Pluji—Prunus domestica. The plum appears to be still more widely diffusedin its original locality than the apricot; and it ismuch more prone to run into varieties. It is anative of Asia, and of many parts of Europe; andeven grows wild in the hedges in some parts ofBritain, though possibly it may have found its waythere from some of the cultivated sorts, and have de-generated. The plum, and almost all its species, isvery apt to run under ground, and produce suckersfrom the roots. Duhamel says that if plums are 2 E 310 VEGETABLE a. Plum. 6. CItcrry. o;rafted low, and covered with earth, they push outshoots which may be transplanted. Plums of various sorts appear to have been intro-duced into England as early as the fifteenth varieties came to us from France and Green-gage is the Reine Claude of France, socalled from having been introduced into that countryby the wife of Francis I. It is called Gage in Eng-land, after the name of the family who first cultivatedit here. The Orleans probably came to us whenwe held possession of that part of France from whichit takes its name. Lord Cromwell introduced severalplums from Italy, in the time of Henry VII. Thedamson, or damascene, as its name imports, is fromDamascus. In some countries, particularly in Alsatia, a con-siderable quantity of alcohol is f)roduced from plumsand cherries by fermentation. Dried plums form alarge article of commerce, under
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