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OverviewPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE TUTTI-FRUTTI TREE WHEN the author of the most famous Love Song ever written, cried, There is no new thing under the sun, cigarettes, chewing-gum, the thermos-bottle and the snapper for fastening ladies' frocks?(an indispensable thing when one has several hundred wives)?were yet to be invented. Neither so far as we can learn, had Solomon who knew and could address in its own language every flower and tree in existence, ever heard of the Tutti-Frutti Tree. There is to my certain belief only one tree in existence answering to that name, and I christened it myself. I am its Godfather. In the heartmost heart of the fruitful Paradise of New Jersey stands a small but ancient stone cottage that has come to regard me as its lord, and on Squire Williams' estate, whose verdant acres lie just outside my garden fence, grows the Tutti-Frutti Tree. Once it was a young Apple Tree. It is still young, but as the result of a series of sap transfusions it is also several other kinds of tree, and when it grows up it will bear apples, quinces, two kinds of pears, peaches and, I believe, plums?almost everything in fact except Water Melons. Some day a future Stevenson will immortalize it in verse something after this fashion, The Tutti-Frutti Tree so bright, It gives me fruit with all its might, Apples, peaches, pears and quinces, I'm sure we should all be happy as princes. It's quite absurd, of course, but just suppose the Tree of Knowledge in that First Garden has been a Tutti-Frutti Tree instead of an Apple Tree! With seven separate kinds of fruit to choose from, all equally forbidden and, for that reason, equally desirable, how could Eve ever have decided which one to pluck? And with Eve's hesitation Sin would have been lost to the world! Let us give thank... Full Product DetailsAuthor: Oliver HerfordPublisher: Kessinger Publishing Imprint: Kessinger Publishing Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 15.20cm Weight: 0.417kg ISBN: 9781120787200ISBN 10: 1120787203 Pages: 168 Publication Date: 07 December 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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