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garden, alFording, not only a protected sunny side, 

 but also a shady side, and all kinds of fruit trees 

 are skillfully trained on them. English fruit, even 

 in the open, gets too little sunlight, and the ripest 

 are still, as in the time of the Due de Langeais, 

 the cooked apples.' 



• The well-known saying was, *' Qu'en Angleterre il n'y avait de 

 poll que I'acier et ne fruits murs que les pommes cuites." (•' There is 

 in England nothing polished but steel, and no ripe fruit but the baked 

 apple.") 



