Wild Apples by Wild Apples

Author:Wild Apples [Apples, Wild]
Language: deu
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THEIR BEAUTY

some brindled with deep red streaks like a cow, or with hundreds of fine blood-red rays running regularly from the stem-ALMOST ALL WILD APPLES are handsome. They cannot dimple to the blossom-end, like meridional lines, on a straw-be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The colored ground,—some touched with a greenish rust, like a gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to fine lichen, here and there, with crimson blotches or eyes the eye. You will discover some evening redness dashed or more or less confluent and fiery when wet,—and others sprinkled on some protuberance or in some cavity. It is rare gnarly, and freckled or peppered all over on the stem side that the summer lets an apple go without streaking or spot-with fine crimson spots on a white ground, as if accidentally ting it on some part of its sphere. It will have some red stains, sprinkled from the brush of Him who paints the autumn commemorating the mornings and evenings it has witnessed; leaves. Others, again, are sometimes red inside, perfused with some dark and rusty blotches, in memory of the clouds and a beautiful blush, fairy food, too beautiful to eat,—apple of foggy, mildewy days that have passed over it; and a spacious the Hesperides, apple of the evening sky! But like shells and field of green reflecting the general face of Nature,—green pebbles on the sea-shore, they must be seen as they sparkle even as the fields; or a yellow ground, which implies a milder amid the withering leaves in some dell in the woods, in the flavor,—yellow as the harvest, or russet as the hills.

autumnal air, or as they lie in the wet grass, and not when Apples, these I mean, unspeakably fair,—apples not of Dis-they have wilted and faded in the house.

cord, but Concord! Yet not so rare but that the homeliest may have a share. Painted by the frosts, some a uniform clear bright yellow, or red, or crimson, as if their spheres had regularly revolved, and enjoyed the influence of the sun on all sides alike,—some with the faintest pink blush imaginable,—

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