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vomiting. A:c. ; and a syrup made of the juice may lie taken to strcni^tlien tlie 

 slomacli. Uuuice wine is made with sugar ami water, in a similar manner as 

 otlier fruit wines. Tlie fruit should first he deprived of their cores, (as the seeds 

 impart an unpleasant llavour to the Avme,) then mashed or trround to a pulp, 

 and mixed in ecpuil proportions, hy measure, with water. After standing from 

 twt'uly-foui to tlurty-six hours, separate tlie juice from the i)ulp by straining; 

 add to each gallon of the liquid three pounds and a quarter of muscovado 

 sugar, and put it up in air-tight casks, and let it remain untd the March or April 

 following. Then, rack it off; cleanse the cask of sediment; ])ut hack the liquor 

 again; and a year after bottle it up. It will be greatly improved by age, and is 

 much esteemed by asthmatic persons. The rind of the quince imparts to wool a 

 yellowish-brown; and, when mixed with the salts of iron, it gives a blackish- 

 green. A mucilage prepared from the seeds of this fruit was formerly much in 

 use, but is now supplanted by the simple gums. 



Independently altogether of its value as a fruit-tree, or of the young plants ioi 

 stocks, the quince richly deserves a place in ornamental plantations, on account 

 of the velvety surface of its leaves, its fine, large, pale-pink flowers, and, above 

 all, its splendid golden fruit, which, when ripe on the tree, reminds us of the 

 orange groves of Italy and of the torrid zone, and may very well justify the con* 

 jecture that it was the true " golden apple" of the Hesperides. 



