VI. LIST OF FRUITS. 



sand to one gallon of chesnuts. If there be maggots in 

 any of the chesnuts, they will come out of the chesnuts 

 and work up through the sand to get to the air ; and thus 

 you have your chesnuts sweet and sound and fresh. To 

 know whether chesnuts will grow, toss them into water : 

 those that swim will not grow- To raise a chesnut tree 

 with a straight stem or trunk, follow precisely the direc- 

 tions given for the planting and raising of orchard trees. 



S66. CRANBERRY. This fruit is not much culti- 

 vated in England, notwithstanding its excellent qualities 

 in the making of tarts, and in the making of sauce to be 

 eaten with mutton or venison. The finest cranberries 

 come from America, where the plants creep about upon 

 the ground in the swamps. If cultivated in England, 

 they must grow in some wet place, and be kept clear of 

 weeds : the plant creeps over the ground, like other 

 creeping plants j and I saw them bearing very well by 

 the side of a running stream at Aldbury in Surrey. Cran- 

 berries make an excellent preserve, and they may be 

 kept throughout the winter in their natural state, either 

 laid in a heap in a dry room, or put into a barrel 

 amongst water. I have imported them from America, 

 sometimes barrelled up in water, and sometimes not j 

 and always sound and good. 



967. CURRANT. This, though a low shrub, bears a 

 fruit at once popular, plentiful, and excellent in its 

 qualities j and, it is one of the great fruits of England, 

 though not the same in many other countries. It is 

 raised with the greatest facility by cuttings of the last 

 year's wood, taken off in February, and planted in a cool 



