The intense heat suddenly ripens and wilts them, just as it softens and ripens peaches and other fruits, and causes them to drop.
I have observed this tree for several autumns invariably changing earlier than its fellows, just as one tree ripens its fruit earlier than another.
The soul that labours against prejudice, and follows reason, ripens in her capacities and grows in her talents at the same time.
The seed ripens in August; but, as all the heads do not ripen at once, they should be cut off as they successively mature.
When planted after settled warm weather, the variety grows rapidly, and ripens quickly; blossoming in less than six weeks, and ripening in seventy days, from the time of planting.
The central flower is first developed; attains a larger size than any that succeed it; and ripensits seeds in advance of those on the side-branches.
When started at the same time, it ripens two weeks after the early varieties, and continues to yield in great abundance until the plants are destroyed by frost.
This is an excellent variety, an abundant bearer, ripens early, and exceeds in size any of the Persian melons.
The crop is treated in the usual form during the summer; and ripens the last of August, or early in September.
The variety ripens early; the plants suffer but little from the depredations of bugs or worms; and the fruit, with trifling care, may be preserved throughout the year.
If planted early, it blossoms in nine weeks, produces young pods in eleven weeks, and ripens off in gradual succession till the plants are destroyed by frost.
It forms its bulb early and regularly, ripens off well, and is quite productive; an average yield being about four hundred bushels per acre.
It is a few days later than the King Philip, but ripens perfectly in the Middle States and throughout New England; except, perhaps, at the extreme northern boundary, where the Canada Yellow would probably succeed better.
The seed ripens in autumn, and its maturity is known by the heads changing to a brown color.
The varietyripens perfectly in the Middle States, but is not suited to the climate of New England.
This ripens about a week earlier than the Large Germek, but is not so valuable a fruit.
The seeds are sown in summer, and the crop ripens the following year.
Instead of being full of life, like the tender grain, they become hard and dry; and the same sun that ripens the one prepares the other for destruction.
The fruit of the Vine is the glad, free, spontaneous outcome of the life within; and it forms and grows and ripens in its proper season.
Canada produces the wild grape in many places, which ripens in its season.
Vine, wild, in many places in Canada, which ripens in its season.
This common huckleberry, oftener found in pies and muffins by the average observer than in its native thickets, unfortunately ripens in fly-time, when the squeamish boarder in the summer hotel does well to carefully scrutinize each mouthful.
Presently the fertilized stigmas wither, and when they have safely escaped the danger of self-fertilization, the pollen hidden under their lobes ripens and dusts afresh the little flies so impatiently awaiting the feast.
Ripens in autumn; glabrous, paired samaras, clustered on drooping pedicels; wings set wide apart, but only slightly diverging.
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripenswithin the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.
In autumn the fruit ripens in the form of a bunch of bright scarlet, shining berries.
The fruit ripens in July or August, turning a bright red and resembling a large raspberry, whence the common name ground raspberry, is derived.
It ripens too early, and is affected by strong winds.
We are familiar with the fact that as the fruit ripensit contains large quantities of sugar, and is edible uncooked, which fact is usually not true of starchy foods.
It ripens in January, keeps until June, and always commands the highest market price.
If brought from a colder climate to a warmer one, you hasten its growth and accelerate its maturity just in proportion to the difference in mean temperature of the two localities, and consequently it ripens in the fall here.
Ripens from the middle of July to the 10th of August.
Pryor's Red, ripens unevenly, and is affected with scab.
However, it ripens earlier in this climate; follows the Maiden's Blush.
It ripens gradually from the 10th of August to the last of September.
In the autumn of life, when the labor of the summerripens into fruit, how pleasant to reap the reward of work!
All through the warm days of July and August, the grain ripens in the rays of the sun, and in September the fields are yellow with nodding heads of golden grain.
It ripens somewhat later than Barcelona and is easy to husk.
Weiker, a shellbark and shagbark cross, a large, heavy bearing nut that ripens here north of Lake Ontario.
It ripens early and separates readily from the husk.
They are very showy and bright purple or yellowish; they appear in April and May, while the fruit ripens in July and August.
The bloom is about three inches long and as broad, blossoming in April and May; the purple fruit ripens in July, and is about the size of a large walnut; its flesh is pink fading into purple.
The fruit is elliptical, about the size of an English walnut, and ripens in May and June.
The tomatoripens as in France, and the Chinese yam has been successfully grown.
The arbutus ripens its fruit, and the camellia clothes itself with blossom, as in more southern climates; the fuchsia reaches a height of 15 or 20 ft.
It ripens in four months, some sorts of it in three.
But we--we in whose limbs the breath of life still boils--we who can still work, let us never forget all grain ripens not.
It stirs up the sap, it hardens the wood, it brings out the blossom, it colours the leaves and the flowers, it ripens the fruit.
The stamens are short, attached to the corolla; and the superior ovary ripens to a black, globular berry containing two or four seeds.
After flowering the calyx becomes much swollen; and the superior ovary ripens into a capsule with a few rather large seeds.
The former have ten stamens; and the latter a superior ovary which ripens to a globular capsule with five teeth that spread horizontally or even curve downwards.
Each of the little flowers has a five-lobed, free calyx; five petals; numerous stamens; and an ovary that ripens into from five to eight little twisted capsules.
The former have from two to five stamens; and the latter a one-celled ovary that ripens to a capsule containing many seeds, each with a tuft of silky hairs.
As the fruit ripens the cluster of carpels lengthens into a slender spike from an inch to an inch and a half long.
The seed shatters out very easily when it is ripe, and when the crop ripens unequally it cannot be cut without loss, because either a portion of it will be immature, or, if left till it is all ripe, the seed of the earliest falls out.
It is best planted in the West Indies between September and November, and ripens in January.
It ripens in September, growing to the height of about 18 inches, and its stems, which are very slender, are bent to the earth by the mere weight of the grain.
The red ripens a month earlier than the rest, or about four months from the time of sowing.
The plants are cut only as they become ripe, for a field never ripens altogether.
This ripens into a flattened seed-vessel before the leaves are fully out, and the seeds, being small and chaffy, are wafted in all directions and carried to great distances by the wind.
The fig is often mentioned in the Bible, and two kinds are spoken of--the very early fig, and the one that ripens late in the summer.
The flowers are yellowish white and grow in clusters, and the seed ripens into a hard nut which in its fibrous husk is about the size of an infant's head.
The berry is small, black or blue, having a bloom, highly acid, andripens after frosts.
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