2 1 2 Fruits and Fruit- Trees. 



drupels are large, green at first, then reddish and opaque, 

 finally of a very delicate pink amber-yellow, and trans- 

 lucent. Though large they are not so numerous as those 

 of the raspberry and the blackberry; the etaerio is thus 

 a very handsome one. 



In flavour the cloudberry is both sweet and moderately 

 acid, with something of the taste of tamarinds. It is nice 

 to eat just as gathered, but better when made into jam. 

 The Laplanders bruise and eat it with the milk of the 

 reindeer. Travellers in Norway, where the cloudberry 

 grows even by the roadsides, are regaled with molta, 

 moltebser, or myrebaer, a very pleasant preparation of 

 it in cream. As an anti-scorbutic, it has proved to be 

 scarcely inferior to the lime. In the "Voyage of the 

 Vega," the two noble volumes in which Prof. Nordens- 

 kiold has recorded his observations during a voyage 

 round Asia and Europe by way of the north-east passage, 

 a work of very different order from ephemeral books of 

 travel, the author testifies to its value in terms of the 

 highest praise. The entire ship's company was preserved 

 from that great scourge of arctic sailors, the scurvy, by 

 the sole use of it, or at most with the addition of a small 

 quantity of rum, which appeared to increase the efficacy. 

 Prof. Nordenskiold expresses his belief that future polar 

 expeditions, should they avail themselves of the cloud- 

 berry, will find it conduce more than anything else to 

 health and comfort. A very interesting fact in botanical 

 geography is that down in the antarctic regions, in the 

 Falkland Islands and Terra del Fuego, there grows a 



