250 Fruits and Fruit-Trees. 



In North America the Apios tuberosa is called the earth- 

 nut. The absurdly so-named " Zulu-nuts" of the shops 

 are the tubers of the Cyperus esculentus. 



THE HAZEL-NUT (Cory Ins Avellana). 



THE simple mention of this pretty name brings with it an 

 odour of bygone romance. It goes shares, in association, 

 with that of the blackberry, carrying one back to days 

 long since left in the rear, those shining ones when life 

 seemed to offer no greater blessedness than the filling 

 one's satchel with the brown gold ; the holidays, sweet 

 September afternoons, which, after all, it is quite possible, 

 though forty years have sped away, to renew to one's self 

 in other fashion. For holidays are not made by statute 

 or the time-table, but come from within tranquil realiza- 

 tions to one's spirit of the much-contenting fact that joy 

 and repose are found not in places, but in persons, the 

 nuts now transmuted, perchance, into bryony, the black- 

 berries into lotus or " listening wheat." No pleasures are 

 so sincere and so enduring as those which come late in 

 life through renewal of one's youth under the agency of 

 a happy direction of heart, nor are any so thankfully 

 enjoyed. 



A moment's pause, and then, like Disraeli, with the 

 mention of the hazel, we are back among our first-known 

 poets, the inestimable friends from whom we learned how 

 to feel and to see : 



