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Title: Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), b. 1825 Taylor, J. E. (John Ellor), 1837-1895
Subjects: Science Natural history
Publisher: London : Robert Hardwicke
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sperma-tick faculty is innate in all the parts thereof, for notonly the seeds shed on the ground, but its sproutsand leaves being planted, produce the like fruits.Our opinion of pine-apple, whilst derived onlyfrom an experience of imported West Indian speci-mens, was by no means so flattering as that of thelearned Father. In fact, it remains doubtful, thoughsome may regard it as heresy, whether, since wehave deliberately tasted of fine varieties ripened athome by experienced growers, that our opinion ismuch altered for the better and in favour of thepine. Our depraved tastes would lead us to pro-nounce in favour of a rich mellow pear, or a dish ofstrawberries and cream, against a dozen pine-apples.But we are wandering again, and who can blameus?—even editors and authors are but men atChristmas time, and cannot help thinking about thegood things which comfort the inner man, and for-saking the midnight oil for—some other par-tickler wanitv. 12 HARDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. (Jan.1,1S67.
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Eig. 3. PINE APPLE (Ananassa sativa). Before us lies a list of names by which the pine-apple is known in about forty languages or dialects,and the root of the majority of them is the originalSouth American Nonas; from which the TamulAnasa, and the Arabic Anannas, as well as thegeneric Latin name, by which the plant is known tobotanists, is derived. There is but little doubt thatAmerica was the original home of the pine-apple,whence it became introduced into eastern and southernAsia. How it got into Africa we do not pretend toexplain, nor would we like to assert that it is not known anywhere on the habitable globe, whereverthe temperature is sufficient for its production. When Oliver Cromwell ruled in these realms, apresent of pine-apples was one of the things whichfell to his lot, and this was probably the first intro-duction of the fruit into England, although it wasknown on the Continent four years previously. Eouryears afterwards and Evelyn writes of its appear-ance on the royal ta

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