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BERBERIS, 



BARBERRY. 



DESCRIPTION. 



BARBERRY, of thornbushes, with red fruit. 



Red Fruit BARBERRY. 



THE BARBERRY is accused, unjustifiably I believe, by plowmen of spoiling the 

 flowering of their wheat. It's even kept out of hedges that line their property and 

 consigned to the woods & to enclosures with poor soil. But we owe the barberry a place 

 in this treatise because of the uses for its fruit that is conserved as grain and in jelly, tarts, 

 preserves, syrup, &c. 



This shrub is very bushy & grows five or six feet tall. 



The shoots are straight, long, stout, grooved, and have a tan color. The phloem is 

 yellow. 



The buds are covered with pink scales and are set alternately on the shoots. The 

 stem is big & wide and terminates in three strong & very sharp spines. The largest one, 

 six to eight lignes long, rises perpendicularly on the branch. The other two originate from 

 the base of the large one. They make a right angle with it on each side, & intersect the 

 branch horizontally. Some stems are armed with four or five spines arrayed like spokes in 

 a semicircle. 



