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CHRONICLE. 
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favourable autumn presents t e— finite 
hades of colour to found, ranging from the brightest 
yellow, gold, ruddy n, orange-crimson to scarlet, 
mixed up with the brightest green. Last week we 
saw all this to perfection. Тһе Sycamores, some still 
ea their s garb, others bright yellow 
mixed with green, an me more sombre with dusky 
bro t 2o some bri ellow, and so 
own ; the Wych 
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yellows of every. “iat, to ru 
lm, that 
Beeches green, n ever sm shade of yellow to deep 
B pen ee green, yellow, brown, 
die otherwise green, 
in of red of the 
garden, make a Jim of жуйе чий beauty ee 
lit up with sun 
I have alluded гй the blending of summer beauties 
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rich 
MM patting forth thei lovely blooms i а ee 
nooks; Daises spar r the 
nuts are ee large buds for the next 
foliage ; Rhododendrons кай Azaleas the sam рез = 
if we put a spade below the surface w up 
Crocus bulbs, хаклы pushing out long This shoots 
that will be above the ground before Christmas 
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kinds—so have Pears ; and our ne 
almost em ape of the bounty of P 
ps of the small market value their Asus 
mands 
ur greenhouse the Fuchsias e essing am à 
as gay, =: 
as never been without a spike 
Wherever space allows, the x plants above named 
di ids in the Severn as 
or 4 feet a 
less than’ е s ihroughout the basin of the Severn, 
and we have never witnesse of those гоме 
recorded in tbe sider parts of the country ; but th 
wet season ma ан come to us, ап M ile I vits 
as ccelum contravit et imbres nives 
ays we have enjoyed during the 
p summer, "i console жакин with the thought 
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“Non a жал. nubibus hispidos 
Manant i 
with return 1 hope for even 
greater уа ап еіп our — than 
ple 
what has been s mia E us “A the past, 
and я spring sie shal 
THE болес. ud OF 
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Eh ы, jus Se en е to some of 
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m may prove interestin 
Blackberries have already bee 
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a rob are aor rate from them which ar 
Considered cordial and refreshin 
In the food чечи x = ion International 
kxhibition i in exti am e dried fruits — by 
ussia were Sten vie ies, pberries, an 
M. hortl ide ; aa in the United States the E Сере, 
е Cran — be and St 4 
ы entire for ріп by rapid evaporation wl 
artificial hea асое fruits being very 
ng 
eet their былай a cm this method, when 
Ball de ne саты, enables е fruit to be 
doce nigra), which ripen 
. ptember, are in many parts of the country wats 
into a home-made wine, which is much drank mulled 
W: s the must of t ape, 
afterwards s distilling it. In France Elder wine is made 
by placing about 40 1 crushed berries in a m 
with honey, sugar, or 4 of 
glucose, first dissolved in about 1o gall. of warm 
water. It is left to ferment in a warm temperature, 
and withdrawn from the lees ne a cask, and after a 
tion of a oi nths a pleasant and 
them by steeping them 
spirit. It is said that Sloe juice is used Des Ён 
port wine. 
The Arbutus аа abundantly in poor soils in 
Provence and Cevennes, and is often raised in gardens. 
From ан fruit a Mood spirit тет an excellent eng Me 
have been made. In the cou ear the 
Lake of ply it grows spontaneously, and the 
fruit is eaten by the peasants. A w made from 
the fruit in Corsica, but according = Lindley it is des 
ported to be "a if а in quantity, Тһе frui 
re considered van 
leasant sweets acidulous flavour. 
accinium Myrtillus, 
Whort eberries | of | V. uliginosum and V. Vitis Idza, 
Many American species = substitutes for these, 
The le of P. e wine from the fruit of 
Thibaudia Macro phe ; "that from our Whortleberries 
is sai i be eni put into 
beer and other liquors to make erede h 
fermented it yields an EM liquo 
Th r Crakebe у (Euipstram 
s brownish black Meet) berries, like 
red berries of the Crowberry of South 
he Cra nex of Staten Island (Empetrum 
rubrum), are plea о eat. 
The delicate Whortleberry (Vaccinium tenellum) 
extends from England to Virginia, the large 
bluish and black ines are extremely sweet and 
pleasant. 
У, corymbosum т» точ. Canada {о Carolina 
and Georgia, in swamps and wet woods. The black 
berries are insipid, - but are ud in tarts like those of 
the Cranberry. 
The Bear's Grape Whortleberry, a native of the 
coast of the Black Sea, produces fruit in great 
abundance, язы is agreeable to the taste, and makes 
Ex 
ood sed berries = c Mount Ida Whortle- 
preser ent medicine in 
colds, sore throats, and all irritations of the mouth or 
fau 
que berries are abundant in the United a 
rario Newfou ndland, and the northern parts of 
ally to 
gallons ns. hey. ме — - чый and barrels con- 
20 gallons e es have 
taining from 
as — vida cae acid taste, ee are highly grateful 
to t persons when made into tarts, jelly, or other 
preparations oa vaerei беги эрт 
Тһе rsh or Eur ropean Cranberry 
(Oxycoccus s palustris), d pear-shaped glo globular berries, 
en spotted with crimso liar flavour, with a 
es, 
ranberry, another species, has scarlet or 
ite t, and of an exquisite 
The erect 
pas berries, quite transparen 
E have no recent returns of the imports of Cran- 
berries, as the Board of Trade do not now enumerate 
small articles ; but the following were the imports a 
few years ago :— 
| Quantity. | Value. 
| Gallons. | & 
1868.. ix P 39,594 3044 
1869.. I ÁU 34,054 2869 
1870.. v» M 48,472 4780 
а exports s to the United 4 States through the 
port of Oswego, a 1500 s of Cran- 
ey grow, 
of a slightly oval 
mewhat 
The American Cran 
shape and a bright red ror They so 
resemble Currants, but are more than twice as large, 
and have no remains of the calyx at the a of = 
n their sacks of Cranberries. his busi- 
vactical Farmer—thus all udes t to the jdm dade 
from өй: гну this wild fruit 
** A Cranberry field in Burlington county, containing 
ands, who picked by the 
Twent 
ing 50 S 10,000 
more, and expect to sell all to one desiet at 4 dollars per 
bushel.” 
еей я Columbia exported Cranberries of 
te value 
ан лон Whortleberries and Blackberries 
es ны by boiling for five or six minutes in 
of ey r to the ie art. Wild 
and Apples ar сас 
Р, 
land 50,000 cans of Blueberries, giving employment 
to n ands, 
he common Bilberry, or Blaeberry (Vaccinium 
муно which is very generally diffused over the 
northern countries, is plentiful in Britain and Irela 
The bluish-black berries, about the size of Currants, 
m, ripen in October. The 
jelly, in as northern and nae counties of England 
ut Scotland ; and in other parts of the country they 
are AT nto pies ist addi i 5. 
ма трче {о stain paper and linen purple. 
helarge juicy Ша berries of the great or bog 
Whorie berry (V. inosum) are rem. but 
inferior in favour to th | 2 Ві m abes they 
are use 
weden they furnish an = ded spirit, that is highly 
volatile and intoxicatin 
The large гед Бапа ра berries 
мр stifolium are highly esteemed by the inhabitants 
f the northern parts of America, E - S edt is 
indig ik n Siberia the berries ed 
ME the autumn and part o 
and afterwards they are eaten in a raw state, 
mented iet with eis x ae: pe a spirit distilled 
m them ; or hon us wine produced, 
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rades. Ше eil fruits of several Eie certo 
— “of G. mbens 
all aphylos alpina, and ue coccinea 
(Epigæa cordifolia) are examples of t 
much esteemed by 
e Goos 
sutipuda is sai 
asa snb, 
The red fruit of the dimer m of North 
America is of an acid, ing that of 
C егу р 
or less agreeable e taste, which are fre 
employed as a substitute for Cranberri 
currant- (К, 
niveum) of the north-west coast of America has деер 
fruit about the size of j 
ich ripen in July and Au e accord- 
ing to Lindley is entirely desti the flatness 
much used 
anufa of the cde € spirit called 
Шамын which is much — in eroi шшш of 
it the frui f fy d inen hi re h int 
eat the fruits o rupacea, whi senis owever, 
very agreeable in flavour. In localities the 
