. The new hydropathic cook-book : with recipes for cooking on hygienic principles : containing also a philosophical exposition of the relations of food to health : the chemical elements and proximate constitution of alimentary principles : the nutritive properties of all kinds of aliments : the relative value of vegetable and animal substances : the selection and preservation of dietetic materials, etc., ruitful sources of indigestion. The Date {Phoenix dactylifera) forms a principal article offood for the inhabitants of many parts of Egypt, Arabia, andPersia. The fruit is extremely swee
. The new hydropathic cook-book : with recipes for cooking on hygienic principles : containing also a philosophical exposition of the relations of food to health : the chemical elements and proximate constitution of alimentary principles : the nutritive properties of all kinds of aliments : the relative value of vegetable and animal substances : the selection and preservation of dietetic materials, etc., ruitful sources of indigestion. The Date {Phoenix dactylifera) forms a principal article offood for the inhabitants of many parts of Egypt, Arabia, andPersia. The fruit is extremely sweet, and very Arabs reduce dried dates to a kind of meal of which date-bread is made, and on which alone they subsist during longjourneys. A single date tree, which is a species of palm, willbear from one to three hundred pounds of fruit in a singleseason. The young shoots are edible, resembling best dates are large, softish, but little wrinkled, of a red-dish-yellow color outside, with a whitish membrane betweenthe flesh and stone. Pomaceous Fruits.—The Apple(Pyrus malus) is one of our mosthardy, and probably the most valu-able of all our fruits. The tree isusually of a low-spreading form (), though sometimes growing to avery large size. It has been knownto bear fruit when over 200 yearsold. All the varieties of our luxuri-ous apple fruit originated fr:m the Fig. TUB APPLE 64 Hydropathic Cook-Book Varieties of the Apple—Abuse of the Apple Crop—Cultivation. wild crab-tree of Europe. No fruit is more easily cultivatedor preserved, and none flourishes over so large a part of theearths surface. A great many choice varieties grow readilyin all the temperate regions, and some kinds arc produced inrather cold latitudes. In Homers time the apple was regarded as one of theprecious fruits. The varieties that may be produced by cul-tivation are innumerable. A catalogue of the London Hor-ticultural Society, published in 1831, enumerated 1
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