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huckleberries, and after boiling these for about half an hour — 
one pound of silver salmon roe thoroughly pounded is added - 
to about five gallons of the mixed fruit and the whole again | 
boiled for a half or three-quarters of an hour, when itis - 
poured into five-gallon oil-cans or oil-erates and put away | 
for the winter. The addition of the. salmon roe is for the | 
purpose of preventing fermentation, which would otherwise | 
promptly set in and spoil the fruit. 
RIBES LACUSTRE var. PARVULUM is comparatively rare, . 
being only found on landslides and rocky bluffs, where it 
appears to maintain a precarious existence. It is evidently — 
chosen, for any shrub or plant more productive of ill temper — 
ina traveller I do not know. It is the only shrub that in - 
this region exceeds the dimensions which it attains further E 
