; All rare blossoms from every clime 

 Grew in that garden in perfect prime*** 



SHELLEY. 



SEPTEMBER 



pOMONA is reigning. In England the fruits, the out- 

 A come of the pink and white blossoms of orchard boughs, 

 have grown ruddy and golden by drinking in the sunlight, 

 mellow and juicy with many a gentle shower, and are quite 

 ready for gathering. Many an acre of orchard-land is now 

 resounding with the voices of busy pickers. But from the 

 world's many sunny shores there has been rolling into Eng- 

 land, month by month, a huge wave of delightful fruits, for 

 England boasts not of her own rearing the ruby-seeded pome- 

 granate, nor the luscious banana, whose fruit lies together like 

 clusters of golden crescent moons. Although England boasts 

 not these, besides countless other fruits, she holds one her 

 own, that surpasses, perhaps, those of any other country, a 

 fruit that is monarch of all the grape, with purple clusters 

 hanging like rubies with a mist upon them, and white like 

 strings of chrysoprases of the coolest and most translucent 

 green ! 



Christina Rossetti in her " Goblin Market " arranged Po- 

 mona's gifts in charming order 



" Come, buy our orchard fruits, come buy : 

 Apples and quinces, lemons and oranges, 

 Plump unpecked cherries, melons and raspberries, 

 Bloom-down-cheeked peaches, swart-headed mulberries, 

 Wild free-born cranberries, crab apples, dewberries, 

 Apricots, strawberries ; All ripe together. 



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