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being used as a tasty sauce for puddings. This is the flower of 
Jove (Di-anthus), and it is redolent of cloves. Its second title, 
“Sops in Wine,” was given because the petals were infused in 
wine to give this a spicy flavour, especially in the cup presented 
to brides immediately after the marriage ceremony. The 
blossoms are highly cordial, whilst the dried petals, if powdered 
coarsely, and kept in a stoppered bottle, are of service against 
heartburn, and flatulence, being given in a dose of from twenty 
to sixty grains. Gerarde says: ‘A conserve made of the 
Carnation flowers with sugar is exceeding cordiall, and wonder- 
fully above measure doth comfort the heart, being eaten now. 
and then.” By a mistake Turner designated the same flower 
“Incarnation.” These flowers were thrown of old into casks 
of wine to give a pleasant taste, and a gallant colour. 
At the famous MULBERRY Gardens planted in London by 
James the First (1609)—where Arlington Street now stands— 
were made the famous restorative Mulberry tarts which Dryden 
loved. But in Germany mothers disapprove of Mulberries 
for their children, and declare the devil wants the dark juicy. 
berries for blacking his boots. An excellent Mulberry wine is 
sometimes brewed which retains all the remedial virtues of this 
fruit: “On each gallon of ripe Mulberries pour one gallon of 
boiling water, and let them stand for two days; then squeeze 
all through a hair sieve, or bag. Wash out the tub, or jar, 
and return the liquor to it; put in the sugar at the rate of 
three pounds to each gallon of liquor; stir up until quite 
dissolved ; then put the liquor into a cask; let this cask be 
raised a little on one side until fermentation ceases, and then 
bung it down. If the liquor be clear, it may be bottled after 
four months. Into each bottle put one clove, and a small lump 
of sugar ; and the bottles should be kept at a moderate tempera- 
ture. The wine can be used ina year from the time of bottling. 
The juice of Mulberries is curative of putrid sore throat when 
employed as a gargle, and the ripe fruit is somewhat laxative. 
The familiar game played by children “ Here we go round the 
Mulberry bush” bore reference originally to the Bramble, 
or Blackberry bush, with its similar juicy dark-red_ berries. 
The Mulberry is not a bush. : 
Viotet “cakes” (already noticed) are of recent revival, 
being both nice, and with a reputation against cancer. “ Take 
the juice of one lemon, and put it into a silver porringer, and 
