. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. EBONY FAMILY persistent calyx. It ripens in late autumn, is pale orange with a red cheek, often covered with a slight glaucous bloom. One of the delights of the natives in the south is to induce strangers to taste this fruit, for its bitter as- tringency is something that can be known only by experience. The frost is required to make it edible, but having been subjected to this influence it becomes sweet, juicy and delicious. This peculiar as- tringency is due to the presence of Fruit o
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. EBONY FAMILY persistent calyx. It ripens in late autumn, is pale orange with a red cheek, often covered with a slight glaucous bloom. One of the delights of the natives in the south is to induce strangers to taste this fruit, for its bitter as- tringency is something that can be known only by experience. The frost is required to make it edible, but having been subjected to this influence it becomes sweet, juicy and delicious. This peculiar as- tringency is due to the presence of Fruit of the Persimmon, Diospy- , , . r .^- i ro$ virginiam. 3. tannm Similar to that of Cinchona. The fruit is much appreciated in the southern states and appears abundantly in the markets. It is much sought by the opossum, who is supposed to fatten upon it, and the combination of persimmon, opossum and negro was very common in the slave songs of ante-bellum days. The tree is greatly inclined to vary in the character and quality of its fruit, in size this varies from that of a small cherry to a small apple. Some trees in the south produce fruit which is delicious without the action of the frost, while adjoining trees produce fruit that never becomes edible. Several varieties of the species, Diospyros Kaki have been cultivated in China and Japan from most ancient times. In- deed this seems to be the universally cultivated fruit tree of Japan, is there found in every garden and by every cottage. The Japanese horticulturists have developed it into almost as many varieties as our gardeners have made of the apple tree. Some of these have been introduced into California and are said to flourish there. The California persimmon often offered for sale in our northern markets is the product of this Japanese tree. The Persimmon is very common in the southern and Gulf states, and because of its stoloniferous roots frequently makes extensive thickets in abandoned fields and along the roadsides an
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