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Something Abont Persimmons—Resultsof Cnltlvation.lt;■ . 'i'tSb * HI“What’s them things, mister” as Iced a eountrymf.ii of a Fulton Market (New York) fruit dealer’ pointing to a peculiar look in g fru it about two inches in diameter, of a terra-cotta color, closely resembling an apple in shape, and having a needle-like point at one end and something like an acorn cup at the other.“Why, these .are the celebrated Tennessee persimmons!”‘•These persimmons,” said the dealer to a Tribune reporter, “came from a farmer near Nashville, Tenn., who makes a .specialty of growing them. lie finds it a profitable business, and lias brought the heretofore, almost worthless fruit to a high state of perfection. The specimens are green, of course, and were sent to me lor comparison with the Japanese persimmon. I find them larger, but cannot judge of their flavor until they are ripe, which they are not till bitten by the frost. Frost mellows them and removesall astringency, making them as sweet as sugar and of a delicious flavor.‘•The persimmon, indigenous to the South, grows upon small Hees seldom exceeding fifty feet in height, and -in a wild state the fruit |s .small and unattractive, thongir extremely sweet alter frost. ^fJhil-dren are fond of the persinfmion,but they are most popular with the ’possum, who walks forth nightly to regale himself and become a *vietiin of the boys and dogs who know just where to find him. A persimmon tree is a ’possum’s J)el-monico. Some people have experimented with persimmons in various ways, and I have known them to be dried and pressed, in whieli condition they eat as well as the dates of Arabia. The farmer, from whom these came has realized as much as $10 a bushel for liis cuRj-vated variety, and I understand, tie lias devoted a goodly portion of his land to a persimmon orchard, with the intention of showiug the American people just what can be done with a product which grows in every old field in the southern and central States, and has heretofore been looked upon as little lessthan a nuisance.”Tat:Inmcraisaxnd)ciwlaalC(aiithihi8CftTaicltlhtlt*net(ahtiyyci
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Big Stone Gap Post
Big Stone Gap, Virginia, US
Thu, Jul 13, 1893
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