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M'ill preserve it for an indefinite space of time. Elderberry 

 wine is a stimulent tonic, and slightly laxative. It is also an 

 anti-scorbutic. It is useful in dyspepsia, and as a laxative in 

 habitual costiveness. It also has some reputation in eruptive 

 diseases and in scrofula. The juice of apples or common cider 

 can also be manufactured into very pleasant and palatable wine. 

 The following is the most popular method. 



CIDER, OR APPLE WINE. * 



Take sweet and sour apples in about equal parts by measure. 

 Let them be sound, pleasant favored, and tree from rot and 

 worm-holes. Grind them in a mill, and let the pomace stand 

 twenty-four hours stirring it up often so as to expose it to the 

 air. After the juice is expressed, add two pounds of refined 

 sugar, to each gallon of cider, and put it in a perfectly clean 

 barrel for fermentation. Rack oft" after fermentation ceases, 

 and cleanse the cask weU, then return it and bung it up close- 

 ly. Cider wine prepared in this way, and bottled after four 

 months, is nearly equal to the best Champaigne wine, and is in 

 fact, very much like it. 



The Wine Plant^ a species of Rhubarb, is now quite exten- 

 sively cultivated for the purpose of making wine. Rhubarb 

 wine is a light, weak, delicate wine, and a very agreeable stim- 

 ulent drink. Whether this plant will get into general cultiva- 

 tion for wine making, future experiments and tests, will proba^ 

 bly determine. It is a remarkable prolific plant, afibrding a 

 vast amount of semiacid juice, and not much sugar. The wine 

 is made as follows : 



RHUBARB WIXE. 



Crush the stems of the leaves between wooden rollers, and 

 express the juice. To each gallon of juice, add three of water, 

 and to each gallon so diluted, three pounds of good sugar. Put 

 into clean casks for fermentation. Bottle in due time. 



In some parts of the State Whortleberries are used for wine 

 making. These berries are gathered by the bushel in early 

 autumn, and being so prolific and cheap, the Avine can be made 



