MAY-APPLES AND MOCK 

 MAY-APPLES 



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HE name "apple" seems 

 to have been a favorite and 

 convenient resource to the 

 botanical christeners for fruits and fruit- 

 like growths of all kinds. There is the 

 oak-apple, a gall produced by the sting 

 of an insect; cedar- apple, a fungus; tomatoes were 

 called love-apples, and potatoes, ground-apples ; the 

 Indian turnip-root of the plains, the prairie - apple ; the 

 papavv, the custard-apple. Then we have the pineapple 

 and the two May-apples, not one of which is any more 

 entitled to the name of "apple" than were the apples of 

 Sodom, though from all accounts they are somewhat 

 more agreeable to the taste than the Scriptural fruit. 



