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Mulberries

The fruit of the mulberry recommends itself by its highly aromatic flavour and abundant subacid juice. It is wholesome, cooling, and rather laxative; like the strawberry, it does not undergo the acetous fermentation, and therefore may safely be partaken of by gouty and rheumatic persons. The most forward mulberries attain maturity about the end of August, and there is a succession of ripening fruit on the same tree for about a month or six weeks. The ripening berries rapidly change from a reddish to a black colour, and should be gathered accordingly for immediate use. This delicate fruit will not keep good off the tree for above a day or two.