(common, or American persimmon)
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| "The
orchards were loaded
with fruit, and the forest trees showered nuts upon the ground. In
every field were groups of persimmon trees, their branches bending
under a burden of luscious fruit, which the frost had coated with
sheeny purple outside, and made sweeter than fine wine within. Over all
bent softly brilliant skies, and the bland, bracing air was charged
with the electricity of life and happiness." - John
McElroy, The Red Acorn: A Romance of the War, 1883. |
| "I
have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position
and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered,
and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No
occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no
culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of
subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one
thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a
continued one through the year." --- Thomas Jefferson
(August 20, 1811, to Charles W. Peale) |