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the bung out of the cask — fermentation will immediately ensue, 

 and will continue about eight weeli:s. By listening at the bung- 

 hole, it can be easily ascertained when the fermentation is finished, 

 then drive in the bung, and eight months after the wine may be 

 drawn off and placed in a clear barrel, or in glass. 



These domestic wines cannot be made of good quality from the 

 sugars of the ordinary kind. It may be understood thus : sugar 

 contains (until refined,) a small portion of gum, and during fer- 

 mentation of the wine, this gum becomes fcetid, and its ofifensive 

 odor can only be overcome at the expense of fine aroma of the 

 wine. If the sugar be pure, it will be transformed into alcohol 

 by fermentation, and the aroma of the fruit will be maintained. 



This fruit follows the strawberry in early summer, and at a 

 time when other fruits are not attainable. It does not undergo 

 acetous fermentation in the stomach, and is therefore healthy. 

 Dr. Short recommends raspberry vinegar, raspberry syrup, &c., 

 as a healthful, reviving draught in ardent fevers, and he also 

 recommends it in scorbutic disorders. Many persons believe in 

 its efficiency as a remedial agent for gout and rheumatism. 



Judge Van Wyck — We have had a good account of the best manner 

 of cultivating the small fruits, which are before us for considera- 

 tion to day. Dr. Byrne, a distinguished cultivator of Alexandria, 

 D. C, says the melon strawberry, which possesses blossoms both 

 male and female, he has found answering every purpose, in its 

 proximity it will impregnate other varieties, such as Hovey^s seed- 

 ling and Hudson buy, causing them, especially the latter, to yield 

 enormous crops. In this way some of the trouble and nice ob- 

 servation about male and female plants may be avoided. The 

 wild strawberry, I think, exceeds every other for flavor. There 

 is no difficulty here about male and female plants, which makes 

 many suppose there is nothing in it. I have seen it grow year 

 after year in fields, if not disturbed, in the greatest abundance, 

 and some of them of a pretty good size. I have seen them trans- 

 planted into gardens, and the size much increased by cultivation. 

 The wild raspberry, commonly called black caps, from their shape 

 and color, is a very good little raspberry. They grow wild along 



