300 Fruits and Fruit- Trees. 



English counties, but never to the same degree as in its 

 native country, where it is called by the duplicate name 

 of the " Virginian date-plum." 



Another species of the same genus, the Diospyros Kaki 

 of eastern Asia, promises to supply a good orchard-house 

 fruit, as soon as attention shall be expressly devoted to 

 it. Near Paris it grows freely out-of-doors, and ripens 

 fruit the size of a small orange, and of the same colour, 

 but covered with a delicate "bloom." The flavour 

 resembles that of the apricot, with inclination towards 

 the austerity of the medlar, and when the fruit is not 

 gathered too soon, is decidedly pleasant. It would thrive, 

 in all likelihood, wherever the Eugenia prospers. 



SOLANACEOUS FRUITS. 



THE large and very important order named after the 

 Nightshade is noted for the frequent occurrence in it 

 of narcotic and poisonous plants. Such, among many 

 others, are the Belladonna, the henbane, the stramonium, 

 and the tobacco-plant. This renders the fact so much 

 the more interesting that, as in the parallel case of the 

 Umbelliferse, it contains other plants, not alone harm- 

 less, but that are donors of excellent fruits. Foremost 

 among these last we have the tomato or "love-apple:" 

 then come the tree-tomato, the aubergine, and the 

 so-called "Cape-gooseberry." 



