Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-30
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 80. 1868.

ries, blue, black, and dewy-whte, heap their
purple blooded spherues in vast hills near by;
here are raspberries of all the colors which
heaven makes them, all the fiavors, from that
0t the delicious Antwerp, Sybarite, lounging
on delicate espaliers in sunny gardens, to the
fresh, original aroma, of the little black hell
melted savage who used to scratch our attack
ing hands on Saturday afternoons of boyhood
and summer Here are giant gooseberries,
each possible tart, all save the pastry;
currants, white, red, black and golden, iuicer
and larger than the average gooseberry of the
east; wild cherries, of several varieties;
plums of every possible kind. No anachron-
ism is too striking for this convention of P0-
mOna's children. As the eternal kingdom of
souls shall bring together in sweet conci,.yu
EschyluS, Shakespeare, Pindar, Walter the
Mnnesinger, Mrs. Browning, Haiiz and James
Russell Lowell, nor shall either ask the other
''Of what age are your" ''Where were you
when | was singing in old times?" SO the
fruits in this sunny all-time, yet no-particular-
time, of San Francisco have utterly forgot
ten that in other portions of the globe the
despot of the seasons bars them from each
others company and ushers them into mems
banquets only over each othera new-made
graves.
So, in this anachronistic Heaven of the
IL uito1 tiit plStuuo hllu HldldCdlUOn
peach smile across tine berries have rehearsed
nj the Bartlett, the Beurre Luxembourg, the
Duchesse d'Angouleme, the Seckel and the
Virgalieu pears. Every variety of apple,
from tho herald Bow to the file-clOsing russell,
ningles its fragrance with the musk and citron
OdOrs OF innumerably varied melons, and the
cool scent of that green-skinned giant who
always carries suggestions Of a Tiyol or
piashy fountain perennial within him, and is
e-nUnlinated water" for that reason. Oh,
the figs that pile their gold and purple thuri-
bles close by needing no priest to swing
them that their honeyed scent may float every
where under the arches, and bring in to wor-
ship the eager beeS-the no less eager boys
who love them as well. When | think how
worthy Of being loved is plump, fresh fig,
feel a sort of honest pride in the memory
that there was never time when | did not
love them, either an natuyel, or iced, sliced
and eaten at dewy morning-td for breakfast
with cream and sugar. 1 am so glad that
fresh figs were no mere acquired taste with
Tue, lis they are with some people! | can't
understand how. Next to figs stand great
bunples of tina: delicious sugar-cane from the
Sandwich Islands, whereof / learn to eat by
tine linear rod before rod of bitterer charac-
ter descended ON the south, and barred the
lover Of sweets from the cane fields but |
grievc to say that the anti Chinese prejudice
of the San tranciscans prevents them from
doing the Justice to this delicious delicacy
which they would pay it were not John OF the
oblique eyes visibly masticating it at frequent
bourS aud streCt-COrners.
GRAPES.
While on the subject of foreign fruits, let
me not forget that | have seen here, during
this very month, in company with all the
,l,,,
from Acapulco, c0coanuts, bread fruit, man
goes. lines and oranges from Honolulu. But
the luxury of profusjuu reaches its acme
only in The grapes Anywhere on Kearney,
or Sans0me, or Montgomery strert-any-
where in the Washington or Pacific markets
-Bacchus might turn aside to take TIE life
lease OF lounge, crying NE plus ultrs"
Here each several berry large an eastern
green-gage, the glorious chrysoprase punches
OF the spicy Muscat hang almost bursting
with the wIighty consciou ness Of their gem
erous liquor, aud the sunshine sits through
the translucent globes of the open-airttrained
Hambures, coming out ametlIyStine on the
hitler side. In the vineyards and markets of
California are orer one hundred and SIXTY
1ceH defined and separate ra1qetieS Of grapest
How then shall we do justice to fruit like
this by simply calling names-saying Sweet
coming later, though long before the straw
berries depart, our own transplanted eastern
darlings, the ''Isabellas," "Catawbas" and
"Delawares.n Since / have been here have
become convinced that California is yet to be
the vineyard, par excellence, of all the world.
| tasted the other day, down at Fosters
charming house, Point Lobos Gone gate post
of the Golden Gate), a native champagne
which was nearer that divine concentration of
winey essence, the 4UoSeHe MuScafelle-yes,
even TO that ETHEREAL hint of orange flowers
left by its bouquet on your extreme palate-tp
than any one wine in my memory is like
another, beside these. Harazathy, the great
Hungarian grape-grower, is now at the head
OF vineyard belonging to tile Buena Vista
Vinicultural Society, which in ten years will
rival Johannesburg.
viii not inger in the fruity alcoyes to tan
talize your now autumn beleaguered paates
with more than the names of apricOts, pectar-
ines, damsOns and cages. Nor will | bewider
you by dllating upon the great piles of grosser
vegetable Injuries, the summer squashes, Gu
cumbers, tomatoes, egg plants, oyster-plants,
mammoth potatoes and celery, crisper, larger
and freer from blemish than | ever saw in the
east, to say nothing of its possessing perfec-
ton of flavor superior to that of any save the
products of Roessle's famous Delavan house
garden near Albany. Nothing further need
be said to glorify the fruit and vegetables of
this golden land unless it be, that all these
Injuries | have mentioned are from one to
three hundred per cent cheaper than in New
York. What do you think Of black Hamburg
grapes selling at tel cents per pound? Straw
berries enough for giants supper for half Il
dollar, and in mid autumn?