“The pot herbs of the gods.”— THOREAU.
Those branches of the cultural enterprise which depend upon my own unaided exertions3 fail, I am bound to confess, consistently. However partial to the results of the gardener’s art, I admit with lamentations lack of the gardener’s touch. Since bereft5 of black labour by the seductions of rum and opium6, the plantation7 of orange-trees has sadly degenerated8; the little grove9 of bananas has been choked with gross over-bearing weeds, the sweet-potato patch has been absorbed, the coffee-trees elbowed out of existence. But how may one man of many avocations10 withstand acres of riotous11 and exulting12 weeds? Therefore do I attempt atonement for obvious neglect by the scarcely less laborious13 delight of acclimatising plants from distant tropical countries.
A valued and disinterested14 friend sends seeds which I plant for the benefit of posterity15. Who will eat of the fruit of the one durian which I have nurtured16 so carefully and fostered so fondly? Packed in granulated charcoal17 as an anti-ferment, the seed with several others which failed came from steamy Singapore, and over all the stages of germination18 I brooded with wonder and astonishment19. Since the durian is endemic in a very restricted portion of the globe, and since those who have watched the vital process may be comparatively few in number and therefore unlikely to be jaded20 by the truisms of these pages, a few words in explanation may not be resented. The seed of the durian is roughly cordate, about an inch and a quarter long. In the form of a disproportionately stout21 and blundering worm the sprout22 of my seed issued from the soil, peered vaguely23 into daylight, groped hesitatingly and arched over to bury its apex24 in the soil, and from this point the delicately white primal25 leaves sprang, and the growth has been continuous though painfully slow ever since.
Perhaps the deliberate development of the plant is gauged26 by eagerness and anticipation27. Do I not occasionally indulge the hope of living long enough to sample the first fruits? When in such humour I long for the years to come, and thus does my good friend stimulate28 expectations:—
“I have been spending a small fortune in durians, they are relatively29 cheap and very good this season in Singapore. Like all the good things in Nature — tempests, breakers, sunsets, &c. durian is indescribable. It is meat and drink and an unrivalled delicacy30 besides, and you may gorge31 to repletion32 and never have cause for penitence33. It is the one case where Nature has tried her hand at the culinary art and beaten all the CORDON34 BLEUE out of heaven and earth. Would to Heaven she had been more lavish35 of her essays!
“Though all durians are, perhaps, much alike and not divided like apples and mangoes into varieties, the flavour varies much according to size and ripeness. In some the taste of the custard surrounding the heart-like seeds rises almost to the height of passion, rapture36, or mild delirium37. Yesterday (21st June, 1907) about 2 p.m. I devoured38 the contents of a fruit weighing over 10 lb. At 6 p.m. I was too sleepy to eat anything, and thence had twelve hours of almost unbroken slumber39.”
Since my friend is not an enthusiast40 in regard to tropical fruits, his reverie is all the more reasonable.
The Dyaks, who are passionately41 fond of the durian, distinguished42 it by the title of DIEN, which signifies the fruit PAR4 EXCELLENCE43. Under such circumstances my anticipations44 are justifiable45. To my friend I am also indebted for several young plants of the sapodilla plum (ACHRAS SAPOTA), sold in some parts of India under the spurious title of MANGOSTEEN, and considered to be one of the most luscious46 fruits of the tropics. Like the durian, the sapodilla plum grows all too slowly for my precipitate47 tastes, though I console myself plenteously with mangoes.
Now, the mango in its infinite variety possesses charms as engaging as those of Cleopatra. Rash and vain though it be, I am in such holiday humour in respect of the sweet anticipation of the durian that I cannot refrain from an attempt to chant the praises of the “little lower” fruit. Yet it is
“Beyond the power of language to enfold
The form of beauty smiling at his heart”
whose palate is tickled48 with such dulcet49, such fantastic flavours.
How may one hope to externalise with astringent50 ink the aesthetic51 sensation of the assimilation of gusts52 of perfume?
A mango might be designated the unspeakable eatable, for who is qualified53 to determine the evanescent savours and flavours which a prime specimen54 of the superb fruit so generously yields? Take of a pear all that is mellow55, of a peach all that is luscious, of a strawberry all that is fragrant56, of a plum all that is kindly57, of an apricot all its aroma58, of cream all its smoothness. Commingle59 with musk60 and honey, coriander and aniseed, smother61 with the scent1 of musk roses, blend with cider, and the mixture may convey a dim sense of some of the delectable62 qualities of one kind of mango. To do justice to the produce of the very next tree another list of triumphant63 excellences64 might be necessary. A first-class mango is compact of so many sensations to the palate, its theme embraces such rare and delicate surprises, that the true artist in fruit-flavours is fain to indulge in paraphrase65 and paradox66 when he attempts to record its virtues67 and — yes, its vanities.
There are mangoes and mangoes. The very worst is not to be wholly despised. For the best there are due moods and correct environments. For some, the lofty banquet-hall, splendid with reflected lights and the flash of crystal and silver and the triumphal strains of a full band hidden by a screen of palms and tree-ferns. There are others best to be eaten to slow, soft music in a flower-bedizened glade68 of fairy-land.
September is the season of scents. Partly as a result of the dryness of the month, the mango trees continue to bloom as though each had determined69 (for the time being) to abandon all notion of utility and to devote itself solely70 to the keeping up of appearances. Appearances are well worth maintaining, for however trivial from a florist’s point of view the flower of the mango in detail, yet when for six weeks on end the trees present uniform masses of buff and pink, varied71 with shades of grey and pale green, and with the glister of wine-tinted, ribbon-like leaves, and the air is alert with rich and spicy72 odour, there is ample apology ever ready for the season and the direct results thereof. The trees are manifestly over-exerting themselves, in a witless competition with others which may never boast of painted, scented73 fruit. There is not a sufficient audience of aesthetics74 to tolerate the change of which the mango seems ambitious.
In Japan, where the cultured crunch75 hard and gritty fruits, peach and plum trees may be encouraged to expend76 all their force and prime in the production of bloom. Vagrant77 Englishmen are still so benighted78 that the desire for sweet and aromatic79 fruit vaunts over that which gives delight merely to the eye. But to assume indifference80 to present conditions, to decline to accept in full measure the redolence of the season which stands for spring in tropical Australia, to refuse to be grateful for it all, would be inhuman81.
The limes have flowered and scattered82 their petals83; the pomeloes (the forbidden fruit) display posies of the purest white and of the richest odour, an odour which in its depth and drowsy84 essence epitomises the luxurious85 indolence of the tropics; the lemons and oranges are adding to the swectness and whiteness, and yet the sum of the scent of all these trees of art and cultivation86 is poor and insipid87 compared with the results of two or three indigenous88 plants that seem to shrink from flaunting89 their graces while casting sweetness on the desolate90 air.
Just now, in some situations, the old gold orchid91 rivals the mango in showiness and fragrance92; the pencil orchid dangles93 white aigrettes from the trunks and branches of hundreds of trees, saturating94 the air with a subtle essence as of almonds and honey; and the hoya hangs festoons from rocks and trees in such lavish disregard of space and the breathings of less virile95 vegetation, that the sensual scent borders on the excessive. On the hill-tops, among rocks gigantic of mould and fantastic of shape, a less known orchid with inconspicuous flowers yields a perfume reminiscent of the violet; the shady places on the flats are showy with giant crinum lilies.
It is the season of scents, and the native, untended, unpampered plants are easily and gracefully96 first in an uncatalogued competition. Haunting conceit97 on the part of the mango will not permit acknowledgment of defeat; but no impartial98 judge would hesitate in making his selection from among plants which in maturing make no formal appeal whatever to man, but in some cases keep aloof99 from notice and renown100, while dissipating scents which fertilise the brain, stimulating101 the flowers of fancy. Not all the scents which sweeten the air are salubrious. Several are distinctly injurious. Men do not actually “die of a rose in aromatic pain,” though many may become uncomfortable and fidgety by sniffing102 delicious wattle-blossom; and one of the crinum lilies owes its specific title, (PESTILENTIS) to the ill effects of its stainless103 flowers, those who camp in places where the plant is plentiful104 being apt to be seized with violent sickness. An attractive fruit with an exalted105 title (DIOSPYROS HEBECAPRA) scalds the lips and tongue with caustic-like severity, and a whiff from a certain species of putrescent fungus106 produces almost instantaneous giddiness, mental anguish107, and temporary paralysis108.
The most elemental of all incenses109 — that which arises from warm, dry soil sprinkled by a sudden shower — is undoubtedly110 invigorating. The spirituous scent of melaleuca-trees burdens the air, not as an exhalation but as an arrogant111 physical part of the Isle112, while a wattle (ACACIA CUNNINGHAMI) shyly proclaims its flowering by a scent as intangible and fleeting113 as a phantom114.
“The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.” Not so in respect of the organ of smell. The more educated, the more practised nose detects the subtler odour and is the more offended by grossness. And upon what flower has been bestowed115 the most captivating of perfumes? Not the rose, or the violet, or the hyacinth, or any of the lilies or stephanotis or boronia. The land of forbidding smells produces it; it is known to Europeans as the Chinese magnolia. Quaint116 and as if carved skilfully117 in ivory, after the manner of, the inhabitants of its countrymen, the petals tumble apart at the touch, while fragrance issues not in whiffs but in sallies, saturating the atmosphere with the bouquet118 of rare old port commingled119 with the aroma of ripe pears and the scent of musk roses.
Some of the flowering plants of old England here dwell contentedly120, leafage being free, however few and dwarfed121 in some cases the bloom. Roses, violets, honeysuckle, pansies, cosmos122, phlox, balsams, sunflowers, zinnias, blue Michaelmas daisies, dianthus, nasturtiums, &c., are on common ground with purely123 tropical plants, while ageratum has become a pestiferous weed.
An early or late arrival among flowers and fruit cannot be hailed or chidden where there is but trifling124 seasonable variation. Without beginning and without end, the perpetual motion of tropical vegetation is but slightly influenced by the weather. Who is to say that this plant is early or that late, when early or late, like Kipling’s east and west, are one? It is not that all flowering trees and plants are of continuous growth. Many do have their appointed seasons, producing flowers and fruit according to date and in orderly progress, leaving to other species the duty of maintaining a consecutive125, unbroken series which defies the mechanism126 of cold countries with their cast-iron calendars.
Here but three or four trees deign127 to recognise the cool season by the shedding of their leaves. FICUS CUNNINGHAMI discards — by no means consistently — its foliage128 in obedience129 to some spasmodic impulse, when the many thin branches, thick-strewn with pink fruit, stand out against the sky as aerial coral, fantastically dyed. But in two or three days burnished130 brown leaves burst from the embraces of elongated131 buds which, rejected, fall — pink phylacteries — to decorate the sand, while in a week the tree wears a new and glistening132 garment of green. The flame-tree (ERYTHRINA INDICA) slowly abandons its foliage; but before the last yellow-green leaf is cast aside the fringe of the blood-red robe soon to overspread has appeared. The white cedar133 (MELIA CONFERTA) permits its leaves to become yellow and to fall lingeringly, but its bareness is merely for a week or so. So also does the foliage of the moo-jee (TERMINALIA MELANOCARPA) turn to deepest red and is discarded, but so orderly is the disrobing and the never varying fashion of foliage that the tree averts134 the scorn of the most respectable of neighbours.
Month after month of warm days and plenteous rain during the early part of 1909 produced an effect in the acacias which cannot be too thankfully recorded. The blooming season extended from March 29th to July 17th, beginning with ACACIA CUNNINHHAMI and ending with the third flush of A. AULACOCARPA. During a third of the year whiffs of the delicious perfume of the wattle were never absent, for two flushes of A. FLAVESCENS filled in the brief intervals135 between those of AULACOCARPA. This latter, the commonest of the species on the island, produces its flowers in long spikes136 in the axils of the leaves on the minor137 branches, weighting such branches with semi-pendulous plumes138 laden139 with haunting perfume. The fragrance of the bounteous140, sacrificial blooms saturates141 miles of air, while their refuse tricks out the webs of spiders great and small with fictitious142 favours, and carpets the earth with inconstant gold.
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grove
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avocations
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exulting
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laborious
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disinterested
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posterity
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nurtured
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charcoal
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germination
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astonishment
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jaded
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sprout
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vaguely
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gauged
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delicacy
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repletion
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cordon
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slumber
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enthusiast
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excellence
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anticipations
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justifiable
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luscious
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