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the hundreds of varieties of edible apples that are 

 now in cultivation. Writing in the time of Elizabeth, 

 Gerard tells us of a valuable ointment made in his 

 time of the pulp of apples, lard, and rose-water, and 

 which was called pomatum, from pomum, an apple. 

 It was used to beautify the skin, but this was, of 

 course, made from garden apples. Such juice as 

 might possibly by a tremendous effort be squeezed 

 out of the crab would tend rather to excoriation 

 we imagine. It is, in fact, the source from whence 

 verjuice is derived. 



The sea-buckthorn, or sallow-thorn Hippophcz 

 rhamnoides should be, as its name suggests, a 

 dweller by the margin of the sea, and so it ordinarily 

 is. It nevertheless thrives in our neighbourhood, 

 a good fifty miles from salt water. It is one of 

 our scarcer plants, and is chiefly found in various 

 localities in the south and east of England amidst 

 the sand-dunes or cliffs of the littoral. The plant 

 from which our illustration is taken came to us from 

 a friend at Scarborough. The leaves of the sea- 

 buckthorn are of a dull green above, and very 

 greyish below ; from the mode of growth of the 

 plant these lower surfaces are much in evidence, 

 and this silvery sheen becomes a conspicuous 

 feature. The flowers are very minute, but are 

 succeeded by the richly coloured berries that we 

 have preferred to illustrate. 



Another plant that seems to have a special love 



