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Vurrani Wine. To miike this wine, gather the cur- 

 rants when tally ripe, let them be picked in fair weather 

 and with as nauch expedition as possible ; break them 

 well in a tub or vat, (some have a mill constructed for 

 the purpose, consisting- of a hopper, fixed upon two lig- 

 num vitie rollers,) press and measure the juice, having 

 first strained it through a woollen cloth; to every gal- 

 lon of pure currant juice, add two gallons of cold water, 

 then to every gallon of this mixture, immediately put 

 three pounds of go d brown sugar, (some think it better 

 with three and one fourth pounds,) stir it well, till the 

 sugar is quite dissolved, and then till up the cask. If you 

 can possibly prevent it, let not your juice stand over 

 night, as it should not ferment before mixture. Observe, 

 that the casks be sweet and clean, and such as never 

 have had either beer or cider in them, and, if new, let 

 Ihem be first well seasoned. The cask must nit be so 

 full as to work over. Lay the bung lightly on the hole, 

 to keep out flies, &.c. fn three weeks or a month, the 

 bung-hole may be stopped up, leaving only the vent- 

 hole open till it has fully done working; then stop it up 

 tight, and in six months it will be fit for bottling or for 

 use. Like other wines, however, it improves much by 

 age. 



If you intend to make 30 gallons agreeably to this re- 

 ceipt, you will require 8 gallons of juice, 16 of water, 

 and 72 lbs. of sugar. 



GOOSBERRIES. 



Goosberrles require a deep and rich loam : the ground 

 must be well manured and kept free from weeds ; and 

 be careful to plant none but those that are of a good 

 kind. The best mode of propagating them, is by cut- 

 tings or layers. (/See Layers^ Cuttings, and TranspIa7ithirrA 

 Early in the spring, spade carefully around the roots, 

 turn over the soil, and pull out all grass that may grow 

 near them. Prune them by cutting out every worn-out, 

 decayed, or irregular branch — let none be permitted to 

 grow across each other; but let all be pruned to some 

 regulan order — cut out all the super-abundant, latteral 

 shoots of the last summer, close to the ground, or old 

 wood, only retaining here and there a good one, to sup- 



