 Plumbs there are of 3 sorts. The red and white are like our hedge plumbs: but the other, which they call Putchamins, grow as high as a Palmeta. The fruit is like a medler; it is first greene, then yellow, and red when it is ripe: if it be not ripe it...  Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington - Page 53by Biological Society of Washington - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Connie Barlow - 2008 - 306 lehte
...strangles one." Captain John Smith, of the first European settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, warned, "If it be not ripe, it will draw a man's mouth awry with much torment."2 Not that adventurous, I sampled a mildly unripe persimmon. The experience is much like tasting... | |
 | Paul C. Metcalf - 2002 - 290 lehte
...them all. Plumbs there are of 3 sorts. The red and white are like our hedge plumbs: but the other, which they call Putchamins, grow as high as a Palmeta....and red when it is ripe: if it be not ripe it will drawe a mans mouth awrie with much torment; but when it is ripe, it is as delicious as an Apricock.... | |
 | Charles Fergus - 2002 - 294 lehte
...the flavor of the persimmon (putchamin, he called it, phonetically rendering the local Indian word): "If it be not ripe, it will draw a man's mouth awry, with much torment, but when it is ripe, it is as delicious as an apricot." Time, warmth, and sunlight — not frosts,... | |
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