JUNIPER BUSH. 



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rooms may possibly hereafter give it a place among the 

 luxuries of London and Paris*.' " 



Spenser alludes to the humble growth of the Juniper 

 at the same time that he describes the lofty stature of 

 the Cedar : 



" From lowest Juniper, to Cedar tall." 



Hall says that the J uniper Bush is almost everywhere 

 to be met with about the roots of the Highland hills, 

 and observes that it has one property of the fig tree, that 

 it has alv/ays two crops of berries on it-f. 



Captain Franklin tells us that the fruit of the Common 

 Juniper is called by the Crees, Caw caw quew meena, 

 Crow-berry]:. 



It has been observed that the Swedes prepare a beer 

 from the Juniper ; a custom which appears common to 

 Norway also. Brookes tells us, that while in Norway, 

 he witnessed the peasants' method of brewing, which 

 consists, says he, " merely in a simple infusion of barley 

 and the young and tender shoots of the Juniper in 

 warm water ; which produces a weak, though not un- 

 pleasant, beverage §.'" 



This author also informs us that a custom, which before 

 the use of carpets was common in England, is still general 

 in Norway, — that of strewing the floor with Juniper : 

 this has been common to many parts of Europe. 



" On entering my little chamber, I was agreeably 

 surprised to find every thing exceedingly neat and clean. 

 The floor was strewed, as is the custom in Norway, with 



* Clarke's Travels, vol iii. p. 51. 



t Hall's Travels in Scotland, p. 433. 



X Journey to die Polar Shores. 



§ Brookes' Sweden and Norway, p. 131. 



