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bushel! in a forenoone : In other seasons there bee 

 Gooseberries, Bilberries, Etesberries, Treackleberries, 

 Hurtleberries, Currants; which being dryed in the 

 snnne are Little Lnferionr to those that our Grocers 

 sell iii England." 



l'.ut even the high north has it- treasures of native 

 fruit. In t'a<-t. it is one of the marvels of travelers 

 that berries are so plentiful and s<> good in those regions. 

 Even under tin- snow they preserve their character, 

 ami an- an indispensable succor when tin- snow disap- 

 pears in tin- Bpring. It is literallj true thai in many 

 parts '>!' the cold north, beyond the bounds <»f civili- 

 zation, fruits are in plentiful supply the year round. 



A recent not.' in "Outing" speaks as follows of tin- 

 native fruits of Labrador: "In spite of latitude and 

 Ardic current, Labrador is the home of much thai is 

 delicious in the berry world, Three varieties of blue- 

 berries, huckleberries, wild fed currants, having ;i pun- 

 gent, aromatic flavor, unequaled by the cultivated 

 varieties, marshberries, raspberries, tiny white capillaire 

 tea-berries, with h flavor like some rare perfume, and 

 having just a faint suggestion of wintergreen; squash- 

 berries, pear-berries and curlew-berries, the latter not 

 bo grateful ;is the others, hut a prime favorite with 

 the Esquimaux, who prefer it to almost any other; 

 and lastly, the typical Labrador fruit, which, excepting 

 a few scattering plants in Canada and Newfoundland, 

 i- found nowhere outside of the peninsula the gor- 

 geous bake-apple iRubtta Chamamorus\ . These cover 

 the entire coast, from the si. Lawrence to Ungava. 

 Their beautiful geranium-like leaves struggle with the 

 reindeer moss upon the islands, carpel alike the low 

 valleys and tin- highest hilltops, and even peep from 



