LITTLE REGARDED WILD FRUITS 



failure to jell, but an excellent table syrup is the re- 

 sult, instead. 



Wild currants, gooseberries, plums and cherries all 

 play into the jelly maker's hands; and so do the 

 acid, scarlet berries of the eastern Barberry (Ber- 

 beris Canadensis, Pursh), found in mountain woods 



OREGON GRAPE 

 (Berberis aquifolium) 



from Virginia to Georgia, as well as of the European 

 Barberry (B. vulgaris, L.) which has become a wild 

 plant in some sections. On the Pacific slope another 

 Barberry is the familiar Oregon Grape (Berberis 

 aquifolium, Pursh), a shrub two to six feet high, 

 with evergreen pinnate leaves of seven to nine 



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