CHAPTER V 



SOME LITTLE REGARDED WILD FRUITS 

 AND BERRIES 



Greate store of f orrest frute which hee 



Had for his food late gathered from the tree. 



The Faerie Queene. 



NO one has to be told of the edibility of our wild 

 strawberries, huckleberries, currants, cranber- 

 ries, mulberries, raspberries, blackberries, elderber- 

 ries, grapes and persimmons; nor of the pleasure 

 which some palates find in the bitterish tang that 

 goes with the familiar wild plums and cherries, al- 

 though the only use to which most housewives con- 

 sider these last fitted is the manufacture of jams 

 and jellies. It is more to the purpose, therefore, in 

 this chapter to touch upon some less known fruits 

 of the hedge and heath — using the word fruit in its 

 limited popular sense as based on succulency, rather 

 than with botanical accuracy. 



Throughout the basin of the upper Missouri and 

 from Saskatchewan to New Mexico, the Buffalo- 



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