Our Common Fruits: A Descriptive Account of Those Ordinarily Cultivated (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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When the Goddess of Wisdom competed with the other divinities as to which should produce the most perfect work, she is said to have triumphed over her rivals by calling into existence a fruit-tree. And well did the ancient Greek in estimating so highly, as this legend shows him to have done, the gifts with which his soil had been enriched, for there can be little question of the truth that, as an American author remarks, Fruit is the most perfect union Of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. Yet in these days, when our corniicopia overflows with treasures more lovely and delicious than Greek imagination ever even conceived, appreciation Of them.

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