CHEERY GOURMANDS
Cherries have been known in England for over 2,000 years, hut their systematic cultivation dates only from the sixteenth century, when improved stocks and methods wore imported from Flanders (says the ‘Morning Post’). From the first Kent was a great cherry country, and it was once a favorite anmsememont in Kentish orchards to try who could eat the largest quantity of the fruit at a sitting. Busino, Venetian Ambassador at the Court or James 1., witnessed one of these contests, when the winner, a young woman, disposed of 201 b of cherries, beating her nearest liral iw.2AiK
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Evening Star, Issue 19017, 12 August 1925, Page 10
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99CHEERY GOURMANDS Evening Star, Issue 19017, 12 August 1925, Page 10
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