... different jams: blackberry; elder- berry and juniper; blackberry and fresh pineapple; and humeur noir (black humour) of damsons, elderberries, blackberries and a dash of cider vinegar from a French recipe. I make plain jelly with apples for ...

... aiel to have a high vitamin content, and can be used alone or with other fruit (s uch as apples and blackberries) in compots, ketchups, vinegars, jam and jellies, and so on. Elder- berry syrup is made by boiling the berries with water and sugar, and b ...

... sugar into a plum juice I\'hich has been dra·n from the fruit acco rdin~ to the directions given in the recipe for Blackberry and Apple Jelly. Put the juice and sugar into a preserving pan, and let the ingredients boil until a thick syrup is formed (whicl: ...

... with the rich red juice. They used also to gather the crab-apples, which, though too bitter for even the country boy's unfastidious palate, are capable of being made into an excel lent jelly. Mushrooms, again, are looked upon as a natural product that ...

... TIMON.-Here is a list of very beautiful ornamental Crab apples: Sil>erian, a very pretty tree with crimson fruit,, and there is a yellow Siberian too; John These are amongst tl :e Downie, Fairy Apple, Transcendent, and Dartmouth. These are amongst tl :e ...

... IV. A. ]. Hmsler. A CROSS in from the hill and farm- land the blackberries and other fruits they had gathered in the open, to expose them for sale in the streets. Even the bitter crab apple was not neglected, and it seemed as though the nearer one got ...

... winter's evening. The blackberries are passing-my dog eats a lot of them-but there are old apple trees in the hedgerows weighed down with tiny fruit, and by mixing in a few berries and a mountain of sugar we will have the basis for enough jelly to last us another ...

... walked up to a small inland village to ee the \Vomen 's Institute making jam. The blackberries were phenomena l, both in size and in q uantity. There were a few pounds of apples and some of damsons. Those were the only surplus fruits of the year-and I think ...

... does not require a I·ery sharp frost to destroy the bright colouring of the leves, white, silver and gold, or yellnw. CRAB APPLES Wt'l' tt t ll ANDSO~ t E FRU ITS. At the last meeting of the Royal llorticultural Society in the Drill Hall, Westminster, ...

... approaching now is the time when country R APIDLY ch ildren, with juice-stained bands and lips, will go forth to gather blackberries, eat hazel nuts to the point of indigestion, if that affliction were possible for them, and generally feast at Nature's ...

... I celand moss, and the jelly made from it was con iclerecl to be a cure for tuberculosi and other lung complaints.-i\l. CRAWLEY BOEVEY (Mrs.). Upper Goddard's Farm, 5/lirmett, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. NUTRITIOUS JELLY Sm,-Laver bread, can still ...

... pots or which have been prepared for it, and make it air-tight the following day. BLACKBERRY AND APPLE CHEESE. Put six pounds of ripe blackberries and six pounds of apples (weighed after being peeled and cored) which are not quite ri pe into a large jar ...