Our Common Fruits: a Descriptive Account of Those Ordinarily Cultivated Or ...
Our Common Fruits: a Descriptive Account of Those Ordinarily Cultivated Or ...
William Bayle Bernard
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To be put into bottles or close barrels is all that is required in order to preserve cranberries for winter use, and if a small quantity of more highly flavoured preserved fruits, such as raspberries, be used with them, they make an excellent addition to the winter bill of fare. The ordinary kind abound in Sweden, where, in Lin- naBus's time, they were chiefly employed as a detergent to clean plate ; and another species, called Sno wherries, on account of the fruit being white, and which has a ...flavour like that of bitter almonds, was brought from Nova Scotia in 1760, but has not yet been popularized. l^e cranberry-plant is a low, trailing, evergreen shrub, with very small, smooth, unserrated leaves, and bright rose-coloured flowers,* having a four-toothed calyx and a corolla deeply cleft into four segments, which curve back- wards like those of the common nightshade, a flower to which, in shape and size, they bear much resemblance, though differing in many other respects. They grow in small clusters at the ends of the branches, one blossom on each long curved flower-stalk ; and when, in due course, they are succeeded by the crimson berries drooping at the extremity of these slender bending stalks, like the head of an aquatic bird at the end of its arched neck, the reason becomes sufficiently apparent why our forefathers bestowed on them the name of crane-herrie8.
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