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increasing class — jam-eaters. I recommend this motto 

 to all those who bottle fruit and make jams, especially 

 in our colonies. I have been lately given a large sam- 

 ple of West Indian jams, but they are not up to the 

 mark. I should imagine there was a great opening for 

 all kinds of preserved fruits, syrups, jams, etc., from 

 abroad, where so many excellent fruits grow almost 

 wild. But they never can be a commercial success if 

 not done carefully. They must look pleasant to the eye, 

 be juicy, and not too sweet. The French alone seem to 

 have the art of knowing how to bottle and preserve 

 fruit. I can buy in London bottled French raspberries, 

 not preserved in sugar at all, and as fresh and good as 

 if newly gathered from a garden ; indeed, better than 

 from my garden, where in dry seasons raspberries 

 always faU. 



