. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. llas;tbeae are eaten, as a rule, once or twice a day by thepoorer classes of the wild tribes of central India, andin parts of Bombay, Rsjpootana, and Bengal. InMoongbay, south of the Ganges, there are about onemillion Bassia trees, so that the yield of flowers thereannually cannot be far short of 100,000 tons. The blossoms of another specirr, Bassia loogi- in Egypt is from a hard conserve of Violets madeby pounding the flowerr, and then boiling them withsugar. This Violet sherbet is of a green colour
. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. llas;tbeae are eaten, as a rule, once or twice a day by thepoorer classes of the wild tribes of central India, andin parts of Bombay, Rsjpootana, and Bengal. InMoongbay, south of the Ganges, there are about onemillion Bassia trees, so that the yield of flowers thereannually cannot be far short of 100,000 tons. The blossoms of another specirr, Bassia loogi- in Egypt is from a hard conserve of Violets madeby pounding the flowerr, and then boiling them withsugar. This Violet sherbet is of a green colour,and is called the grand Signiors sherbet. Thepetals of Sowers are much used in Koumania, inflavouring preserves; Violets, Lime flowers, andRose petals are especially used. Having regard to their flavour, delicate odours,and agreeable appearance, the variety of confituresmade there is almost infinite. The flowers of Melianthus major are so full ofhoney that the natives of the Cape Colony, wherethe plants grow wild, obtain it for food by shakingthe branches, when it falls in a heavy Fig. 129.—cyfbipedium insigne: with the tjppeb aijd loweb sepals similarly spotted. folia, are employed in a similar manner by theDatives of Mjsore and Malabar, where it abounds;they are either dried and roasted, and then eaten, orbruised and boiled to a jelly. The dried small red-pinkish flowers of the Callignnum polygonoides,known in India as phegalli, are eaten by thepoorer classes, mnde into bread, and cooked withghi (a fluid buffer), or eaten separately with salt andcondiments. Toe flowers having fallen off, are»wept up from the ground, and used largely a.; flowers till tbe air with a pleasant odour, as ofover-ripe Strawberries. On analysis they are foundto contain about 46 per cent, of sugar, and 16 7 ofalbuminoids. Tbe Romans bad a wine made of Violet flowers,and these flowers are still used in Turkey in theprrpuatin of sherbets. Top most esteemed sherbet The blossoms of t
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