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bright yellow : in Poland it is used for co- 

 louring of leather. 



We have now several varieties of the 

 barberry-shrub cultivated in England, one of 

 which was brought from Candia in 1759> and 

 another from Siberia in 1790; but it pos- 

 sesses no advantage over our native kind of 

 this fruit. 



