fruit time

The season when fruit is ripe; the time for gathering fruit. IMG:content-0196.png:[blocks in formation] I. Ordinary Language : 1. Lit .: Fruit collectively; fruitery. *2. Fig .: The fruit or result of any action or line of conduct. II. Arch .: Carved work to resemble fruit. "There are sundry other ornaments likewise belonging to the freeze, such as encarpa, festoons, and frutages ."Evelyn: Of Architects and Architecture. Fruitarian, s. [Eng. fruit , and suff. -arian.] Literally one whose food consists exclusively of fruits and nuts, those products of the vegetable kingdom which require neither cooking nor seasoning to become edible and palatable. The Natural Food Society of London, founded in 1890, is composed of fruitarians and is an offshoot from the vegetarians. Their distinct tenet is that man's natural food is composed of fruits and nuts, and that all bread, cereals, pulses and starchy vegetables are an unnatural and an unwholesome food. They hold that the nitrogen and fat or oil contained in the diet of civilization, and usually supplied by the flesh of animals and by milk and eggs, are naturally furnished by those nuts which require no cooking; but as such nuts are not usually easily obtained in good condition, and as they are not so easily digested as fish, flesh, milk, and eggs, by the great majority of people (owing to weakened powers of digestion, caused by wrong habits of living, and by inheritance) fruitarians recommend a diet based on fruit-dates, figs, bananas, oranges, raisins, grapes, apples, pears, peaches, apricots, nectarines, cherries, prunes, plums, berries, . (preferably fresh, but also dried and restored to a somewhat natural state by boiling water, or by gentle stewing)-and with enough flesh or animal products to supply the needed proportion of fat and nitrogen. The fruitarians have a considerable literature, and claim to rely chiefly upon the results of extended experiments for proof of their contention that bread-with all cereals and pulses is the staff of death rather than life. They contend that all such foods, together with all potatoes and starchy vegetables, should be banished from man's dietary, and that the fruits named above should be substituted therefor. ( Dr. Emmet Dens more .)