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useful hints. If you want your onions to fry a good 

 colour, do not peel them. Another hint is that if you 

 boil corks for five minutes before using them they fit in 

 the bottles much tighter, and so preserve what is inside 

 much better. 



There is a French confectioner named De Bry (45 

 Southampton Eow, and New Oxford Street, London), ^ 

 whom I have only lately got to know, and who has the 

 excellent device : ' Vendre bon pour vendre beaucoup.' 

 He sells jams which will be highly appreciated by that 

 increasing class jam-eaters. I recommend this motto to 

 all those who bottle fruit and make jams, especially in our 

 colonies. I have been lately given a large sample of West 

 Indian jams, but they are not up to the mark. I should 

 imagine there was a great opening for all kinds of pre- 

 served fruits, syrups, jams, etc., from abroad, where so 

 many excellent fruits grow almost wild. But they never 

 can be a commercial success if not done carefully. They 

 must look pleasant to the eye, be juicy, and not too sweet. 

 The French alone seem to have the art of knowing how 

 to bottle and preserve fruit. I can buy in London bottled 

 French raspberries, not preserved in sugar at all, and as 

 fresh and good as if newly gathered from a garden ; indeed, 

 better than from my garden, where in dry seasons rasp- 

 berries always fail. 



