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A Cluster of Berries

HE little fruits classed scientifically or popularly as "berries" form a most exquisite group, beautiful in variety of form and colouring, delightful in rich fragrance or bouquet and in delicacy of flavour, appealing to and stimulating the appetite through every æsthetic sense; cooling, in refreshing the whole system; subtly satisfying the intellectual and physical natures alike. The chief members of the group, whether wild or cultivated, are the strawberry, blackberry, and raspberry (with subdivisions); the huckle- or blue- or whortleberry; the mulberry, cranberry, gooseberry, and currant; the elderberry and barberry.