Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-30
Correspondence OF the Evening Post.
SAN Ep.NCVSrn S,,,,t 90 1919

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SAN Francisco, Sept. %, 1868.
There is no poor dog" OF the vegetables
who 'has his day." and only his day, here in
San Francisco. Cheated by that long over
land journey Of my usual annual ecstasy
among the strawberry beds, GLORIOUS queen
of tavors, concerning which that tasteful old
English worthy-was it Louth or Walton p
said ''DOubtless God might have created
better fruit, but doubtless God never did!')
came sadly across the Sierras, saying; II
have lost one whole year; eternity, to its far
thest rolling, will never give r"e back the
strawberries which might hare been ~ (''See
Whittier, an loco, ''Maud Muller" for the
bitterness of that expression.) And with
that serious patience which philosopher OPP
poses to the mmedabe, | entered San Fran
cisco-Oh! waking or dreaming?-t0 find
strawberries blushing through every fruter-
er's window, cheaper and more luscious in the
San Francisco late July than in the New
Yorkian mid June
wreaked my nature in those dulcet cones.
of pouting crimson. Day after day | lived
on strawberries. Even the fruit-loving ma
tives marvelled to see me sacrifice on the
shrine of their never-veiled Pomona. Three
times a day did l heap giant plate and storm
its fragrant pyramid, coming of conqueror
and more than conquerer, because L bore
away whiffs of perfume on my lips and IN my
beard, like memories of well-spent life, or
"reminiscences Of love making, or thoughts of
childhood in the mind of some old tiresde
sage. Think-if you can without breaking
the tenth communicated your correspon-
dent, even at this hour, long past nid-Sep-
TENDER, making his daily lunch of strawber-
ries, as fresh, as dewysweet, almost as plen-
tlful as they were in Fulton market in June
When | tell you that | shall rise from this
desk to eat your health in plate Of luscious
seedlings, holding nearly quart, speak the
simple truth. For the climate and science
have made the strawberry in California per-
ennial bearer. In February it begins to APP
pear in the markets. 1t is in high abundance
from April to September. 1t is always pro-
durable until December, and special arrange
ments with the gardner will get it furnished
you through that month and January, the
scarcest of the year.
OTHER FRUITS.
Nor is the strawberry sole mistress of the
situation in this perennial characteristic. A
sight of the glorious fruity anachronsm-the
reconcied incongruties which cluster in that
seasonless, time-defying hall of immortal lux
uries, San Francisco stall-would
drive a vegetarian mad with ecstasy, and make
an eastern man declare with DIR. Tribulation
Cummings that the unbroken summer of all
the millennium was close at hand. Come with
me into cool alcove of the Washington mar
ket, not five minutes walk from a desk in the
Golden Era Office, where l now sit writing,
and if your sensuous imagination can bear the
| Barmecide feast which it will-alas be to
you, on your side of the continent; run over
with me the catalogue of fruits which we may
find for sale there, all at once, and clear into
/ the days of autumn.
Here are the strawberries of which have
sung rather than prosed, each large enough
to demand two bites and a separate epithala-
MUM for its marriage with your palate, yet
delicate as if it were the little field fruit of the
east (the strawberry of California is The only
one of its vegetables which preserves this del
icacy through all its sizes;) their side the
California blackberrics CULTIVATION Lawton,
! both in magnitude and juiciness; huckleber.