160 THE BEEBEREY* 



the kernels of this variety make the u hulle de marmotte,*' 

 which is worth double the price of the olive oiL 



The DOUBLE FLOWERING APRICOT is a pretty ornamental 

 tree, yet rare with us. 



Selection of Apricots for a small garden. Large Early, 

 Breda, Peach, Moorpark. 



Selection for a cold, or northern climate. Red Masculine, 

 Roman, Breda. 



CHAPTER XL 



THE BEBBERRy, 



Berberis vttlgans,* L. Berberac&s, of botanists. 

 Bptne-rtaeKe, of the French 5 Berberitzen, German ; Berbero, Itafian; 

 Spanish. 



The Berberry (or barberry) is a common prickly shrub, from 

 eight to ten feet high, which grows wild in both hemispheres, 

 and is particularly abundant in many parts of New-England. 

 The flowers, the roots, and the inner wood are of the brightest 

 yellow colour, and the small crimson fruit is borne in clusters. 

 It is a popular but fallacious notion, entertained both here and 

 in England, that the vicinity of this plant, in any quantity, to 

 grain fields, causes the rust. 



The barberry is too acid to eat, but it makes an agreeable 

 preserve and jelly, and an ornamental pickle for garnishing 

 some dishes. From the seedless sort is made in Rouen a cele- 

 brated sweetmeat, confture tTfyine-vinette. The inner bark is 

 used in France for drying silk and cotton bright yellow. 



CULTURE. The culture is of the easiest description. A rich 

 light soil, gives the largest fruit. It is easily propagated by 

 seed, layers, or suckere. When fine fruit of the barberry is 

 desired it should bo kept trained to a single stem as the suck- 

 ers which it is liable to produce, frequently render it barren or 

 make the fruit small. 



1. COMMON RED. 



This is too well known to need description* In good soils it 

 grows twelve or fifteen feet high, and its numerous clusters of* 

 bright, oval berries, are very ornamental in autumn. There is 

 a Large Red variety of this, which is only a variation produced 



* Or B. Canadensia they are scarcely distinct-ours has rather the most fleshy 

 'terry. 



