This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ...and until that time no such grape had been known in any other part of the country, it is difficult to determine whether it is a native of Chili or brought from Europe. It has besides some peculiarities that distinguish it, as the leaves being more indented, and the clusters perfectly conical, while the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ...and until that time no such grape had been known in any other part of the country, it is difficult to determine whether it is a native of Chili or brought from Europe. It has besides some peculiarities that distinguish it, as the leaves being more indented, and the clusters perfectly conical, while the grapes grow so close to each other as to render it impossible to detach one without crushing several. All the European fruit trees yield abundantly, and their fruit is as fine in Chili as in their native country, f The greater part are also remarkable for their numbers and the increase of their size. In the southern provinces are forests of apple and quince trees from three to four leagues in extent, from-whence proceeds that great variety of apples, the fruit of many of which is excellent. Among these, however, those of Quillota are the most in estimation. The quinces are remarkable for their size and goodness; like those of Europe they have an acid and astringent taste, but if suffered to attain perfect maturity, and not gathered until the end of autumn, they are very sweet, and are called in the country corcia. It is a well known fact that this fruit loses its astrin-gency by being allowed to remain a long time upon the tree, but in this country they pretend that the autumnal rains and the slight white frosts of that season are necessary to perfect it. There is likewise a particular species of the quince, improperly called lucuma. The fruit is very different from thatof the real lucuma, and is always sweet, of a conical shape, and in a small degree umbilical; the skin, as well as the pulp, is of an orange colour, and the tree is a real quince tree. Chili has in no less abundance grapes of various kinds, arid among them those which...
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