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increasing class jam -eaters. I recommend this motto 

 to all those who bottle fruit and make jams, especially 

 in our colonies. I have been lately given a large sam- 

 ple of .West Indian jams, but they are not up to the 

 mark. I should imagine there was a great opening for 

 all kinds of preserved fruits, syrups, jams, etc., from 

 abroad, where so many excellent fruits grow almost 

 wild. But they never can be a commercial success if 

 not done carefully. They must look pleasant to the eye, 

 be /juicy, and not too sweet. The French alone seem to 

 have the art of knowing how to bottle and preserve 

 fruit. I can buy in London bottled French raspberries, 

 not preserved in sugar at all, and as fresh and good as 

 if newly gathered from a garden ; indeed, better than 

 from my garden, where in dry seasons raspberries 

 always fail. 



