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Show 896 ELDER. Exper Frower Wine, on Enauisw Frontinrac. Boil eighteen pounds of white powderedsugar in six gallons of water, and two whites of eggs well beaten; skim it, and put in a quarter of a peck ofelder flowers; do not keep them on the fire. When cool, stir it, and put in six spoonfuls. of lemon-juice, four or five of yeast, and beat well into the li. quor ; stir it well every day; put six pounds of the best raisins, stoned, into the cask, and tun the wine. Stop it close, and bottle in six months. When well kept, this wine will pass very well for Frontiniac. DWARF ELDER. SAMBUCUS EBULUS. Class V. Pentandria. Rote SENT. GEN. CHar. seeded. 8PEc, Caar, : Order III. Trigynia. Calyx five-parted: Corolla five-cleft: Berry three- ,, ; : ; Cyme tripar tite: Stipul es foliaceous: Stem herbaceous. Se DESCRIPTION. Ths Tises to is. = feet in height, herbaceous, erect. Leaves a cdcc ’ poinposct of four or five pair, with an Wiebe ci - ys pantetanccolate, unequal, serrated. rolla mono a corymbi. Calyx cut into five teeth. CoFruit a aan wheel-shaped, cut into five large segments, imegnlar ra ish, black, single-celled berry, containing three y shaped seeds. HISTORY. It j . but '$ not unfrequent in hedges, flowering in June and July, seldom brings its fruit to maturity. MEDICAL VIRTUES. Eve that we part of the plant hasa faint disagreeable smell, resembling Commonelder, but stronger and more ungrateful; and, |