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PRACTICE OF GARDENING. 



PART III. 



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4772. The dwarf crimson 

 bramble (Rubus arcticus) 

 (Eng. Bot. 1585.) (fig. 508.) 

 produces an excellent berry, 

 found only on the highest 

 and wildest mountains of 

 Scotland. By successional 

 sowing of the seeds on differ- 

 ent levels, doubtless it might 

 be brought down, step by 

 step, to live and produce fruit 

 on plains, and in appropriate 

 parts of gardens. 



4773. The dewberry (Ru- 

 bw casius) (Eng. Bot. 826.) 

 (Jiff. 503.), the stone-bramble 

 (Rubus saxatilus) (Eng. Bot. 

 2233.) (fig. 504. a), and the up- 

 right bramble (Rubus sube- 

 rectus) (Eng. Bot. 2572.) (fig. 

 504. b), afford agreeable acid 

 and aromatic fruits, which 

 come in late in the season, 

 and merit attempts with a 

 view to accommodating them 



to habits of cultivation. The same remarks will apply to a plant common in the woods of Russia and 

 Poland, and which Dr. Clarke has figured, and named Cripsia ; but which appears to be a species of 

 rubus, and probably a variety of R. suberectus. 

 4774. The 



ria serpyllifo- 



cinium Aispi- 

 dulum, Li. ; 

 and Chiogenes 

 of Salisbury. 

 (Mich. Am.i. 

 t. 23.) Decan. 

 Monog. L. and 

 Ericece, 3. 

 " At Shaw- 

 hill, near Ha- 

 lifax, it pro- 

 duced fruit 

 abundantly, 

 planted under 

 a north wall, 

 shaded behind 

 by high trees, 

 in a border of 

 sandy peat ; 

 and it succeed- 

 ed pretty well in nearly a similar situation at Chapel Allerton, during the eighteen years of my resi- 

 dence at that place, often ripening its berries ; but they being little esteemed, I only preserved a patch of 

 it as a rare plant. The flavor of the fruit, however, is exceedingly agreeable to some persons, being 

 strongly perfumed, like eau de noyau, or bitter almonds, and mixed with a pleasant acid. I now regret 

 that I never tried the berries baked with sugar in a tart : if gathered before they are too soft, they may, 

 no doubt, be preserved in bottles, like cranberries, and possibly prove a valuable addition to our win- 

 ter fruits of that sort." (Salisbury, in Hort. Trans, vol. ii.) 



4775. The purple or common bilberry, blackberry, or whortleberry, ( Vaccinium Myrtillus, L.) (Eng. Bot. 

 456.) is another bog-plant common in Britain and the north of Europe. The berries are gathered in au- 

 tumn for making tarts ; in Devonshire they are eaten with clotted cream ; in Poland they are ripe in July, 

 and, being mixed with wood-strawberries, and eaten with new milk, are considered a great delicacy. In 

 the Highlands of Scotland they arc eaten with milk, and made into jellies. They may be successfully cul- 

 tivated in a shady border of bog-earth. 



4776. The red bilberry, orcrowberry, Vaccinium Vitis Ideea, L. (Eng. Bot. 598.) The fruit is acid and some- 

 what bitter, but makes a very good rob or jelly, which in Sweden is eaten with all kinds of roast meat, 

 and forms a sauce for venison, which is thought superior to currant-jelly. In Wales we have experienced 

 it to be an excellent addition to roast mutton. It may be cultivated in a moist shady border of bog-earth, 

 like the comman bilberry. 



4777. The broad-leaved whortleberry ( Vaccinium anuenum, L.) (Bot. Rep. 138.) is cultivated at Enghien, in 

 the Due d'Aremberg's garden, and the fruit used in the same way as the cranberry. (NeiU, in Hort. 



CHAP. X. 

 Horticultural Catalogue. Exotic Fruits. 



4778. Among exotic fruits we comprehend such fruits as require the aid of artificial 

 heat to bring them to perfection, and among these we have included the vine and the fig ; 

 for though these fruits ripen in the open air in very favorable situations and warm seasons, 

 yet it is allowed on all hands, that in by far the greater number of situations and seasons, 

 grapes and figs, grown in the open air, do not attain any tiling like their proper size and 

 flavor. Exotic fruits may be arranged as follows : 



4779. Those in general cultivation ; as the pine, vine, fig, melon, and cucumber. 



