The fruit of the
medlar tree look like brown, outsized rosehips
He is not prepared for his time in
Medlar House in Kingston, Ontario, to be any different--until he meets his new roommate, Joseph, who is seriously strange.
It was planned not by white supremacists, as counter-protestors claim, but by a 23-year-old college libertarian activist named John
Medlar. After Charlottesville erupted in violence, and activists in Boston began conflating his imminent rally with the assorted neo-Nazis and white supremacists who had gathered in Virginia,
Medlar immediately distanced himself from it.
Apparently, this was the nickname for the fruit of the
medlar tree back in Tudor times.
"Extinction" by Stephen
Medlar musically illustrates the end of life on Earth.
[2-10] In 1915,
Medlar reported chromoblastomycosis in an Italian immigrant in Boston.
Chromoblastomycosis, also known as 'Fonseca's disease' 'Pedroso's disease' or 'Verrucous dermatitis', was first reported in Brazil in 1914 by a German physician, Max Rudolph.1 After one year in 1915, Lane and
Medlar, described the sclerotic cells which were then called as
Medlar bodies/sclerotic bodies/copper-penny bodies or muriform cells.
The body products include citrus body cream, a white wine body emulsion, apricot shower gel oil, vitamin E hand cream and
medlar fruit body scrub.
Mrozowski's "indeterminate fruit" looks a lot like the
medlar, a pome that's picked early and left to overripen for a period of weeks until it is rotten enough to eat, in a process called bletting.
The new version has additional info on growing historical fruit such as figs, quince, and
medlar. There's also a new chapter on growing dwarf varieties in containers, and those who garden organically will be happy to see the new tips on natural tree care.
KOH mount showed scattered copper coloured bodies (
Medlar bodies) which was suggestive of chromoblastomycosis.
In the attractive garden there are lawns, shrubs, mature trees (including tulip, mulberry,
medlar, walnut, apple, pear, plum and damson).
Gasoline Dance Machine are at Cabaret Voltaire, alongside KRL and
Medlar.
Among the atelier's more obscure varieties is a honey made from the
medlar blossom, a rare bush the co-owners have found in natural abundance outside of Sidon.
Heritage fruit trees such as quince,
medlar or mulberry might also suit, or maybe a tree with an interesting story.