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fruit is ripe it is almoft entirely red, it is 

 put to a roafred or boiled piece of meat, a 

 little of it being ftrewed upon it, or mixed 

 with the broth. Befides this, cucumbers 

 are pickled with it. Or the pods are 

 pounded whilft they are yet tender, and be- 

 ing mixed with fait are preferved in a bot- 

 tle ; and this fpice is ftrewed over roafted 

 or boiled meat, or fried fi£h, and gives them 

 a very fine tafte. But the fruit by itfelf is 

 as biting as common pepper. 



This country contains many fpecies of 

 the plant, which Dr. Linnceus calls Rhus, 

 and the mon: common is the Rhus foliis pin- 

 natisferratis lanceolates retrinque nudis, or the 

 Rhus glabra. The Englijh call this plant 

 Sumach. But the Swedes here, have no 

 particular name for it, and therefore make 

 ufe of the Englijh name. Its berries or 

 fruits are red. They are made ufe of for 

 dying, and afford a colour like their own. 

 This tree is like a weed in this country, for 

 if a corn-field is left uncultivated for fome 

 few years together, it grows on it in plen- 

 ty, nnce the berries are fpread every where 

 by the birds. And when the ground is 

 to be ploughed the roots flop the plough 

 very much. The fruit flays on the fhrub 

 during the whole winter. But the leaves 

 drop very early in autumn, after they are 



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