Compared with twenty years previously, the acreage of small fruit had trebled.
The cultivation of fruit land upon farms in many parts of Kent has always been an important feature in its agriculture.
A hundred years ago every one was grubbing fruit land in order that hops might be planted, and for this many acres of splendid cherry orchards were sacrificed.
The wing surrounds the fruit longitudinally in the elm.
The object of the fruit in the economy of the plant is the protection and nursing of the developing seed and the dispersion of the ripe seeds.
The only counties in Great Britain which make no return under the head of small fruit are Orkney and Shetland; and Sutherland only gives 2-1/2 acres.
The sorosis is a succulent multiple fruit formed by the confluence of a spike of flowers, as in the fruit of the pine-apple (fig.
Hampshire, like Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, are the only counties in which the area of small fruit exceeds that of orchards.
Thus the seed may be erect while the fruit itself is pendent, in the ordinary meaning of that term.
He ceased, and Parish held the costly fruit More closely cuddled.
I have treated you with too much indulgence, and am now reaping the fruit of my folly.
Evil thoughts lead to evil deeds, as surely as fruit follows flowers upon the tree.
Why are we not more curious about the ragman's story and that of the bootblack and the man who keeps the fruit store?
But you now reap the fame, so well you've sown; The planter tastes his fruit to ripeness grown.
And the fruitof righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
As at harvest you look for the fruit of your land, so doth God in season expect fruit from you, Mark xii.
The earth shall be a witness against thee, that it bore that fruit for better uses, which thou mispendest on thy sin.
Is the fruit of the earth, or the labour of thy beast, or the service of any inferior creature, so sweet and honourable a work as thine, to know and love thy bountiful, glorious Creator?
He prayeth as if he prayed not, and laboureth as if he laboured not; as if the fruit of holiness passed away as hastily as worldly pleasures.
Observe the immediate troublesome effects, and the disorders of your soul, and so turn the fruit of passions against themselves.
Begin thus to crave the fruit of church discipline thyself; so far shouldst thou be from flying from it, and spurning against it as the desperate, hardened sinners do.
To think how many millions are now in heaven, that all came thither by holy zeal and diligence, and are now enjoying the fruit of all their labour and sufferings!
And seed useth not to bring forth the blade and fruit to ripeness in a day.
And oh that this might be the happy fruit of these directions with thee that art now reading or hearing them!
He hath his scouts to tell him whether he be honoured or dishonoured: this is the return of prayer that he looks after; this is the fruit of preaching which he seeks to reap.
In thy hand is laid The power to build or blight rich fruit of trees, The deep, cool grass, and field of thick-combed grain.
But from that day hatred, which I had never known before, entered my heart; I hate those Germans, who peacefully enjoy the fruit of our toil, and consider themselves honest people.
I have never seen such a country for fruit trees or fine water courses.
I am better pleased in my great misery to be deprived of the fruit of my labour for thirty years than to have lost my love of justice.
Several whom she had most disliked now earned her gratitude by the kindly thoughtfulness which filled her sick-room with fruit and flowers, supplied carriages for the convalescent, and paid her doctor's bill without her knowledge.
The preparation of that for an elderly unmarried woman had involved a certain voluptuousness of rep and fumed oak and heavily decorated china, the fruit of the second-best bedroom in the house of the dish-covers.
Well, I fancy that his work would not suffer at all, that it would ripen, just as certain fruit ripens independently of sun, that he would display in fact quite normally the characteristic growth of the artist.
Improved methods of transportation are bringing us fresh fruit all the year around, and thus reducing the work of preserving and of making desserts.
On the way she picks up a congenial spirit or two, and stopping at the market fills her basket with bread and fruit and cooked meat or other kinds of food that can be bought ready for eating.
The trees hang their fruit at such a height that in order to reach it he must exert himself moderately, not enough to exhaust himself, but enough to insure a good digestion.
When there is no ripe fruit they eat insects and worms.
Whatever form or structure the fruit may take, everything is with reference to the dispersal of the seeds, which must be carried to places suitable for their germination.
In many cases the commonly recognized fruit includes more than the ovary.
Those which eat ripefruit pay for what they eat by scattering broadcast the seeds of the fruit.
I felt I should like to travel, when I grew up, and this glimmering idea was advanced by the contemplation of a fruit stall that did business in Change Alley.
These were noteworthy, being a fruit of Sir George's observation on the human race in primitive lands.
Sir George could place the fruit of history, what had come about, in the remote basket of his hopes.
And presently, having pecked at an admirable fruit salad, just sipped a glass of wine and made close-fitting plans that covered at least a month, Joan rose.
The table was laid for two, and appetizing dishes of cold food, salad and fruitwere spread out on the dresser and sideboard, with iced champagne and claret cup.
There may have been surroundings of fruit and flowers, a stretch of highroad or a hospitable doorway; but the wildest imagination could not picture what Ghirlandajo did.
We get a glimpse on the right, of patient perfection of gardening, where a man is pruning his grafted fruit trees; farther on a group of substantial farm buildings.
Her dress, combined with the dish offruit she holds so high, gives Titian the colour effects he always sought.
The fruit of thirty-three years' peace, hard labour, and penurious saving, has disappeared in seven weeks of anarchical transports!
The bread-fruit plant was no new discovery of either Wallis or Cook.
A brisk trade soon began to be carried on for yams; some plantains and bread-fruit were likewise brought on board, but no hogs.
They but seldom kill a pig, living mostly on fruit and vegetables.
The natives told us that there is plenty of this fruit growing on the rest of the Ladrone Islands; and I did never hear of it anywhere else.
This fruit lasts in season eight months in the year, during which the natives eat no other sort of food of bread kind.
Yet when Bligh commenced taking up the bread-fruit plants, he derived much assistance from the natives in collecting and pruning them, which they understood perfectly well.
Much of this fruit is gathered before it is ripe, and by a certain process is made to undergo the two states of fermentation, the saccharine and acetous, in the latter of which it is moulded into balls, and called Mahie.
An Otaheitan wood consists chiefly of groves of bread-fruit and cocoa-nuts, without underwood, and intersected in all directions by the paths that lead from one house to another.
I can get no description of it save that it lies sleeping in the summer sun, washed by the sapphire tides and fanned by the cool south winds, its olive slopes rising softly from the beach, marked by a grove of fruit trees at the crest.
It is their own talk, their own lives, their own selves put up like fruit preserves of various flavours, moods and colours, warranted not to turn or spoil.
Louie, who had stood to one side glowering, now took charge of them again and shepherded them to a grove of trees where the fruit seemed especially large and succulent.
Some bucolic wit had named the first settlement Appletree, because there they would gain knowledge, and everybody knows that the apple was the Garden of Eden's fruit of knowledge.
One thing you could say for Eden, the fruit didn't seem to depend on seasons.
They wandered among the trees and bushes, picking fruit and nuts, eating leaves and stems and flowers of plants.
The morning air was clear and still, the scent of flowers and ripening fruit was sweet.
The wild bushes and trees all around had plenty of fruit and nuts to eat.
Once they bit into the coolfruit on the trees around them, even not having a hot drink to start the day didn't seem to matter.
Then the orderly would come in and take the fruit friends had left for me, and I'd be all set for the day.
There are some fascinating little tables in the conservatory by the house, withfruit of the most picturesque description," said Mrs Leigh.
Tracing of fruit to its own home source, or to a foreign country.
And he adds: "How much more alluring than the naked fruit from the grocer's sack are these nuts, especially when dots for eyes and mouth are added, and a whole little face is tucked within this natural bonnet.
Whatever gifts he may be endowed with by nature, talent cannot be improvised; it is the fruit of independent and sustained toil.
Mutant race offruit fly with intercalated duplicate mesothorax on dorsal side.
In the fruit fly, Drosophila ampelophila, we have found about 125 characters that are inherited in a perfectly definite way.
A fourth case is shown in the fruit fly, where an ebony fly with long wings is mated to a grey fly with vestigial wings (fig.
Mutant race of fruit fly, called eyeless; a, a' normal eye.
There are two mutant races in our cultures of the fruit fly Drosophila that have dark body color, one called sooty, another which is even blacker, called ebony (fig.
Diagram showing a cross between a white eyed male and a red eyed female of the fruit fly.
Diagram illustrating a cross between a red eyed male and white eyed female of thefruit fly (reciprocal cross of that shown in Fig.
We have bred for five years the wildfruit fly Drosophila ampelophila (fig.
Mutant race of fruitfly called bar to the right (normal to the left).
