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length, by five or six in breadth, a quantity of berries 

 may be procured sufficient for the supply of a family 

 throughout the year. The fruit is easily preserved in 

 bottles. The native cranberry {Oxycoceus palustris) 

 may be treated in the same manner, and in some places 

 is very successfully cultivated. At Culzean Castle, the 

 seat of the Marquis of Ailsa, in Ayrshire, I found (1820) 

 the cranberry ground surrounded by a ditch, the water 

 of which was made to filter through among stones and 

 stakes to the interior, so as to keep the cranberry plants 

 constantly supplied with moisture. In the same garden 

 a second compartment was dedicated to small fruits of 

 this class, having in the centre a rocli-work planted with 

 whortleberries ( Vaccinium vitis-iddea), and around the 

 rock-work beds of American Cranberry, of Scottish 

 Cranberry, and of Crowberry {Umpetrum nigrum), also 

 native. 



The following plants produce fruit in English gardens, 

 some of them abundantly in a wild state, others spar- 

 ingly ; but they can scarcely be said to come within the 

 province of Horticulture : Berber is vulg.aris, the Bar- 

 berry ; Smnhucus nigra, the Elder ; Primus sjyinosa, 

 the Sloe ; P. insititia, the Bullacc ; and Rhuhus Cha- 

 maemorus, the Cloudberry. 



KITCHEN GARDEN. 



In this department those plants are cultivated which, 

 after being subjected to various culinary processes, are 

 used at the dinner-table as articles of food. We shall 

 class them in groups, enumerating the kinds nearly in 



