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Show RASPBERRY BUSH. PREPARATION. Syrup or RAspBerry. This is a very pleasant cooling syrup; and, with this inten. tion, it is occasionally used in draughts and juleps, for quench. ing thirst, abating heat, &c. in bilious or inflammatorydistempers. Sometimes, likewise, it is employed in gargarisms for inflammations of the mouth andtonsils. CULINARY USES. Raspsperry JAM. Let your raspberries be ripe, and dry. Mash, strew them in their weight of loaf sugar, and half their weight of the juice of white currants. Boil them half an hour over a clear slowfire, skim well, and put them into pots, or glasses. ‘Tie down with brandy papers, and keep them dry. Strew sugar over as soon as you can after the berries are gathered, and to preserve their fine flavour boil them as soon as you can. Raspserry Doumpxines. Make a puff paste, androll it out. Spread raspberry jam, and makeit into dumplings. Boil them an hour; pour melted butter into a dish, and strew grated sugar over. Raspserry Tarts, ann Cream. Roll out thin puff paste, lay it in a pattypan ; put in raspberries, and strewfine sugar over them. Put ona lid, and when baked, cut it open, and put in half a pint of cream, the yolks of twoeggs well beaten, and a little sugar. COMMON TORMENTIL. TORMENTILLA ERECTA. Class X11. Icosandria, Order V. Polygynia. Essent. Gen. Cuar, Calyx eight-cleft: Petals four: Seed roundish, naked, affixed to a small dry receptacle. Spec. Cuan, Stem somewhat erect: Leaves sessile. ea DESCRIPTION. Twas plant has slender stems rising five or six inches, ornamented with sessile leaves cut into five lobes, of which three aré largest before, and two smaller behind the stem, all deeply serrate. Flowers single, on long peduncles, springing from the ale of the leaves, FUCS TOR Y.. Tormentil is perennial, and found wild in woods and on commons: it has long slender stalks, with usually seven long narrow leaves or Segments at a joint; the root is for the most part crooked and knotty, of a blackish colour on the outside, and reddish within. Tt has an austere styptic taste, accompanied with a slight kind of aromatic flavour. Neumann got from 960 grains, 365 alcoholic, and 170 watery extract; and inversely, 570 watery, and eight alcoholic. MEDICAL VIRTUES. The rootis the only part of the plant which is used medici- |