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CHAPTER Xy. 



TO PEE8EKVE GRAPES. 



Although He who " has made everything beauti- 

 ful in his season," no doubt designed grapes to be 

 used while fresh, yet, tliough we cannot preserve the 

 exquisite flavor of newly-gathered grapes, we may, 

 nevertheless, prolong their season, if not in its full 

 excellence yet with suflicient attraction to make it 

 worth while. 



With proper care, grapes may be kept until 

 Christmas, and at that time will command a price 

 which would not be paid for fresh fruit during the 

 height of the grape season. 



As yet, the preserving of the fruit seems to be but 

 little understood, and although we have kept grapes 

 until January in a very palatable state, and we have 

 tasted others which have been tolerably preserved 

 until March, we must acknowledge that none of these 

 attempts quite came up to our desires, however much 

 others might have praised the result. The truth is, 

 that grapes in March will never be very severely 

 criticised under any circumstances. They are too 

 much of a rarity for that. 



