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particularly the roots for troubles related to dysentery. 

 The sugar of the berries makes them more palatable and 

 nourishing and the mild acids are cooling to the blood. 

 Blackberry cordial is an excellent remedy for diarrhoea 

 and blackberry wine is tonic in effect while the jams and 

 syrups made from the berry are very pleasing forms of 

 throat remedies. The decoction from the roots is pre- 

 pared by "boiling down an ounce of the smaller roots, or of 

 the bark of the larger, in a pint and a half of water, down 

 to a pint; of which from one to two fluid-ounces may be 

 given to an adult three or four times, or more frequently 

 during the twenty-four hours." (Wood & Bache: U. S. 

 Dispensatory.) 



The Dewberry is but a variety, with sub-varieties, of 

 blackberry, the coating of which is considered to 

 resemble dew. 



THE RASPBERRY 



The Raspberry is very nearly related to the blackberry, 

 a similar variety of the genus Rubus, having, again, sub- 

 varieties in black and red raspberries and the wild cloud- 

 berry and thimbleberry (the latter black in colour.) The 

 fragrance and flavour of the red raspberry are rarely 

 aromatic and delicate, but its seeds and coat are harsher 

 than those of the blackberry. From this inherent rough- 

 ness came its name: from the English "rasp." It is placed 

 with the strawberry as to value in liver and gouty troubles. 

 Syrup of Raspberries in various forms is considered very 

 refreshing and purifying and, the seeds being removed in 

 these preparations, the fruit is perhaps more wholesome 

 than in other forms as well as being quite as attractive. 



LOGANBERRY 



The Loganberry is a cross between the black- and rasp- 

 berry, one of the famous California hybrids. (Seed of 



