. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. EBONY FAMILY. Fruit of the Persimmon, Dto^pi' 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 onlv bv experience. The frost is requued to make it edible, but having been subjected to this influence it becomes sweet, juicy and delicious. This peculiar as- tringencv i
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. EBONY FAMILY. Fruit of the Persimmon, Dto^pi' 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 onlv bv experience. The frost is requued to make it edible, but having been subjected to this influence it becomes sweet, juicy and delicious. This peculiar as- tringencv is to the presence of a tannin siniikir to that of Cinchona. The fruit is much appreciated in the southern states and appears abundantiv in the markets. It is much sought bv tlie opossum, who is supposetl to fatten upon it, and the combination of persimmon, opossum and negro was verv common in the slave songs of ante-bellum days. The tree is greativ inclined to varv in the character and quality of its fruit, in size lliis varies from that of a small cherry to a small apple. Some trees in the south produce fruit which is delicious without the action ot the frost, while adjoining trees proiluce fruit that never becomes edible. Several varieties of the species, Diospyros K^iki have been cultivated in China and Japan from most ancient times. In- deed this seems to be the universallv cultivateel fruit tree of Japan, is there found in everv garden and by every cottage. The Japanese horticulturists have developed it into almost as manv varieties as our ganleners have matle of the a|i|ile tree. Some of these have lieen 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 verv common in the southern and Gulf ;tates, and because of its stoloniferous roots frequently makes extensive thickets in abandoned fields and along the roadsides and fences. iqS. P
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