. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. 2o6 MY GARDEN. WHORTLEBERRIES. Whortleberries {Vaccinium Myrtillus) come up spontaneously in the peat in my ferneries, but if they bear fruit the birds get it. DEWBERRIES. The extreme beauty of the Dewberry {Rubus ccBsius, fig. 390 a), as it grows freely on the banks of the Lea and .of the Thames,—especially when the fruit is covered with its exquisite bloom,—makes me think it ought to be cultivated where ground can be spared. BERBERRIES. We grow the Berberry {Berberis
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. 2o6 MY GARDEN. WHORTLEBERRIES. Whortleberries {Vaccinium Myrtillus) come up spontaneously in the peat in my ferneries, but if they bear fruit the birds get it. DEWBERRIES. The extreme beauty of the Dewberry {Rubus ccBsius, fig. 390 a), as it grows freely on the banks of the Lea and .of the Thames,—especially when the fruit is covered with its exquisite bloom,—makes me think it ought to be cultivated where ground can be spared. BERBERRIES. We grow the Berberry {Berberis vulgaris, fig. 391), which makes delicious preserves. Oddly enough, it blossoms well, but it hardly ever sets its fruit,- so that I very seldom get a Fig. 390a.—Dewberry. Fig. 391.—Berberry. Fig. 392.—Elderberry. THE ELDERBERRY. We have three varieties of Elderberries {Sambuais),—the white, the black, and the scarlet. The black {S. nigra) is the more common, and is generally used for wine—which, when mulled, is no bad drink on a cold day, whilst carrying out the winter garden works; I often use it with strips of toast, and the latter my robin always comes to share with me. The white elderberry I have never tried for wine, but I shall attempt it the first time I can get enough fruit. There is a scarlet elderberry {S. racemosa, fig. 392), but it has not yet fruited at my garden, although I have observed it to be a common plant in Scotland. One pretty standard .flourishes in front of the Trossachs Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877. London, Bell and Daldy
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