THE PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY. 
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name, of British manufacture, is, however, a very different 
article to that imported, and consists of plain spirit, flavoured 
with turpentine, and small quantities of certain aromatics. 
The thousand and one receipts for this article which have from 
time to time been printed in books produce a flavoured 
spirit, bearing no resemblance to the most esteemed samples 
of English gin, and, if possible, even more unlike genuine 
Hollands.” 
It would, indeed, seem that too many English “ gin 
spinners” make an article wholly innocent of Gfenievre, but 
made strong by distilling turpentine and some aromatic seeds 
with coarse spirit, and this is afterwards made suitable (if 
not for consumption, at least for profit, of all except the con¬ 
sumer) for consumption in the “gin palace.” Eor this 
delicious article we quote Cooley's “ Receipt 
“ Gin, Sweetened. Prep. Unsweetened gin (22 u. p.), 95 
gallons; lump sugar, 40 to 45 lbs. ; dissolved in clear water, 
3 gallons ; mix well; add alum, \ lb., dissolved in water, 3 
or 4 quarts ; rummage well for 15 minutes ; then add salt of 
tartar, 2 oz., dissolved in water, 1 or 2 quarts; again rum¬ 
mage well, and bung down close. In a day" or two it will.be 
fine, and ready for sale or racking.” 
Of this the product will be a hundred or more gallons, 
according to the quantity of water the conscience of the 
operator will run to. 
Now, as this is the favourite beverage of the artisan, as 
well as the idle and profligate, especially in our large cities, 
and as gin is increasingly ordered by the medical man for 
pauper patients, it is well that it should be known that it is 
not made on any fixed principles, but depends wholly upon the 
taste and consciences of the operators, both as to its strength 
and the nature of its ingredients. 
The Savin (Juniperus Sabina ) must next claim our atten¬ 
tion. This is a diminutive ornamental shrub, introduced to 
our gardens from Southern Europe or Asiatic Russia. It 
has small densely imbricated leaves and smaller fruits than 
the common species. Though not a British plant, it would 
appear that the exact position of any quantity of savin, nay, 
often of a single bush of it, is tolerably well known, as we 
have been acquainted with more than one locality from which 
it was yearly abstracted, report said, by some carter or carters, 
“to fine the cwoats of the 'osses.” In our own parish there 
is one tree, in a private garden, known to every carter, horse, 
or cow-keeper, all over the village, all of whom have some 
time or other had a bit of it, which they have used for 
worms, or, as our carter expressed it, “ for fining the cwoats, 
