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tember ; and in the above feafons of ripening, 

 let them generally acquire full maturity, and 

 then gathered as wanted, they will feldom be 

 too ripe. 



BERBERRY. 



pERBERRIES are in requefl in feme 

 families to preferve and for candying, and 

 occafionally as garnifh to dilhes when ierved 

 to table ; and for which occafions a few of the 

 trees are admitted in garden or orchard plan- 

 tations, trained principally in fmall ftandards, 

 which produce abundance ot fruit, confilHng 

 of fmall red berries in loofe bunches, ripe in 

 September andCdober, of an allringent talle, 

 comprifing the two following varieties : 



Common Red Berberry, 

 Stonelefs Red Berberry. 



Thefe are both varieties of one parent fpe- 

 cies, and of which the iirft is the common 

 fort, being furnilhed with fmall lion y feeds ; 

 and the other, being an accidental variety 

 thereof, is entirely without ftone, and for 

 which peculiarity it is preferred to the former, 

 for the ceconomical occafions of preferving, 

 candying. Sec, though both the forts are oc-. 

 cafionally ufed ; but as the trees of each are 

 caiily raifed, and the fame method ctf culture 

 io applicable to both, it is moll eligible to 

 have principally the Itonelefs fort, as the ber- 

 ries. 



