aking this, care
should be taken not to break the mulberries: this may be avoided by very
gentle stirring, and by simmering the fruit very slowly.

_Time_.--3/4 hour to extract the juice;

1/4 hour to boil the mulberries the first time, 1/4 hour the second
time.

_Seasonable_ in August and September.

[Illustration: MULBERRY.]

MULBERRY.--Mulberries are esteemed for their highly aromatic flavour,
and their sub-acid nature. They are considered as cooling, laxative, and
generally wholesome. This fruit was very highly esteemed by the Romans,
who appear to have preferred it to every other. The mulberry-tree is
stated to have been introduced into this country in 1548, being first
planted at Sion House, where the original trees still thrive. The
planting of them was much encouraged by King James I. about 1605; and
considerable attempts were made at that time to rear silkworms on a
large scale for the purpose of making silk; but these endeavours have
always failed, the climate being scarcely warm enough.

TO PRESERVE MORELLO CHERRIES.

1561. INGREDIENTS.--To every lb. of cherries allow 1-1/4 lb. of sugar, 1
gill of water.

_Mode_.--Select ripe cherries; pick off the stalks, and reject all that
have any blemishes. Boil the sugar and water together for 5 minutes; put
in the cherries, and boil them for 10 minutes, removing the scum as it
rises. Then turn the fruit, &c. into a pan, and let it remain until the
next day, when boil it all again for another 10 minutes, and, if
necessary, skim well. Put the cherries into small pots; pour over them
the syrup, and, when cold, cover down with oiled papers, and the tops of
the jars with tissue-paper brushed over on both sides with the white of
an egg, and keep in a dry place.

_Time_.--Altogether, 25 minutes to boil.

_Average cost_, from 8d. to 10d. per lb. pot.

_Seasonable_.--Make this in July or August.

THE CHERRY-TREE IN ROME.--The Cherry-tree was introduced into Rome by
Lucullus about seventy years before the Christian era; but the capital
of the world knew not at first how to appreciate this present as it
deserved; for the cherry-tree was propagated so slowly in Italy, that
more than a century after its introduction it was far from being
generally cultivated. The Romans distinguished three principal species
of cherries--the _Apronian_, of a bright red, with a firm and delicate
pulp; the _Lutatian_, very black and sweet; the _Caecilian_, round and
stubby, and muc