Ghap. 33.] 
COLOUll AND SMELL OF JUICES. 
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CHAP. 33. (28.) THE COLOUR AND SMELL OF JUICES. 
Among the juices, those of a vinous^^ flavour belong to the 
pear, the mulberry, and the myrtle, and not to the grape, a 
very singular fact. An unctuous taste is detected in the olive, ^ 
the laurel, the walnut, and the almond ; sweetness exists in 
the grape, the fig, and the date ; while in the plum class we 
find a watery^ juice. There is a considerable difiPerence, too, 
in the colours assumed by the various juices. That of the 
mulberry, the cherry, the cornel, and the black grape resem- 
bles the colour of blood, while in the white grape the juice is 
white. The humour found in the summit of the fig^ is of a 
milky nature, but not so with the juice found in the body of 
the fruit. In the apple it is the colour of foam,* while in the 
peach it is perfectly colourless, and this is the case, too, with 
the duracinus,^ which abounds in juice ; for who can say that 
he has ever detected any colour in it ? 
Smell, too, presents its own peculiar marvels ; in the apple 
it is pungent,^ and it is weak in the peach, while in the sweet 
fruits we perceive none at all : so, too, the sweet wines are 
inodorous, while the thinner ones have more aroma, and are 
much sooner fit for use than those of a thicker nature.^ The 
odoriferous fruits are not pleasing to the palate in the same 
degree, seeing that the flavour^ of them does not come up to 
their smell : hence it is that in the citron we find the smell 
-All fruits that are rich in sugar and amidine, Fee says, either have, 
or acquire in time, a vinous flavour, by the development of a certain quan- 
tity of alcohol. 
^ ^ In the fruit with a fixed oil, this principle succeeds, when they are 
ripe, to the mucilaginous. 
He must mean a thinner juice, though still sweet. 
3 About the peduncle or stalk of the fig. The juice here, Fee says, is a 
real sugar, of the same nature as that vrhich circulates throughout the 
whole fruit : the juice in the interior of which is produced by another order 
of vessels. 
^ The juice is only foamy when the vinous fermentation is established. 
It has that appearance, however, when the fruit is bitten with the teeth. 
^ The hard-berry," or nectarine. 
^ In the sense of aromatic, or penetrating. 
He probably means those of a luscious or sirupy nature, without any 
acidity whatever. 
^ lie seems to mean that the thick, luscious wines require longer keep- 
ing, before they will gain any aroma at all. This would be done, probably, 
at the expense of their sweetness. 
^ Or he may mean, that a fine flavour and a fine smell cannot co-exist. 
