The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
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Various. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862

WILD APPLES

THE HISTORY OF THE APPLE-TREE

THE WILD APPLE

THE CRAB

HOW THE WILD APPLE GROWS

THE FRUIT, AND ITS FLAVOR

THEIR BEAUTY

THE NAMING OF THEM

THE LAST GLEANING

THE "FROZEN-THAWED" APPLE

LIFE IN THE OPEN AIR

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

LOUIS LEBEAU'S CONVERSION

THE DEVELOPMENT AND OVERTHROW OF THE RUSSIAN SERF-SYSTEM

MR. AXTELL

AT SYRACUSE

METHODS OF STUDY IN NATURAL HISTORY

BLIND TOM

KINDERGARTEN—WHAT IS IT?

A PICTURE

TWO AND ONE

THE NEW ATLANTIC CABLE

THE CABALISTIC WORDS

CONVERSATIONAL OPINIONS OF THE LEADERS OF SECESSION

THE HOUR AND THE MAN

HOW TO CHOOSE A RIFLE

THE PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION

REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES

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It is remarkable how closely the history of the Apple-tree is connected with that of man. The geologist tells us that the order of the Rosaceae, which includes the Apple, also the true Grasses, and the Labiatae, or Mints, were introduced only a short time previous to the appearance of man on the globe.

It appears that apples made a part of the food of that unknown primitive people whose traces have lately been found at the bottom of the Swiss lakes, supposed to be older than the foundation of Rome, so old that they had no metallic implements. An entire black and shrivelled Crab-Apple has been recovered from their stores.

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Cancut's paddle guided us through. Unwieldy he may have been in person, but he could wield his weapon well. And so, by luck and skill, we were not drowned in the magnificent uproar of the rapid. Success, that strange stirabout of Providence, accident, and courage, were ours. But when we came to the next cascading bit, though the mist had now lifted, we lightened the canoe by two men's avoir-dupois, that it might dance, and not blunder heavily, might seek the safe shallows, away from the dangerous bursts of mid-current, and choose passages where Cancut, with the setting-pole, could let it gently down. So Iglesias and I plunged through the labyrinthine woods, the stream along.

Not long after our little episode of buffeting, we shot out again upon smooth water, and soon, for it is never smooth but it is smoothest, upon a lake, Chesuncook.

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