. Things worth doing and how to do them. almost for-gotten, although a wealth of sweet smellingwax is held in its tiny berries. A quart of bayberries, a little time,a little trouble, and we have a beautifulgreen wax candle, hard, brittle andsmooth, that hot weather will not melt and whose expiringflame yields an incense sweet and aromatic. There is a peculiar joy in using the raw material fresh fromMother Natures hands and starting at the beginning of things—a joy unknown to those who work only with materials thatare manufactured—and to get the most out of the work of makingbayberry candles yo
. Things worth doing and how to do them. almost for-gotten, although a wealth of sweet smellingwax is held in its tiny berries. A quart of bayberries, a little time,a little trouble, and we have a beautifulgreen wax candle, hard, brittle andsmooth, that hot weather will not melt and whose expiringflame yields an incense sweet and aromatic. There is a peculiar joy in using the raw material fresh fromMother Natures hands and starting at the beginning of things—a joy unknown to those who work only with materials thatare manufactured—and to get the most out of the work of makingbayberry candles you must begin with the locate your Bayberry-Bushes; then, just the time when out-of-door exercise begins to be a de-light, the latter part of September or early in October, gather theberries and take them home for future use. The bayberries, which seem to be nothing but tiny stonescovered with a coating of wax, do not decay quickly, but shrivelup into small gray pellets that will keep, it is said, a year or more. 326. The Fragrance of the Steaming Eayberry Fills the House. 327 Making a Bayberry Candle 329 Look for a bush that is stiff and irregular, generally growinglow in closely crowded patches like the blueberry, though at timesreaching the height of eight feet. It appears to thrive best andis most often seen in sandy soil, but it will grow in almost anykind and flourish even amid the rocks on a barren hillside. The Leaves are oblong and from two to three and a half inches in length(Fig. 448). They usually have several teeth, or notches, near
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