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Show AQA COMMON QUINCE TREE; of water quite thick and ropy; they may be used as the other soft mucilaginous substances. We have in our dispensatory a mucilago seminum cydoniorum, which ought not to be ordered as a preparation to be kept in the shops, because it soon grows mouldyin keeping. This mucilage, with conserve and syrup, makes a goodlinctus for easing a tickling cough, and has been used where oily medicines disagree. OFFICINAL PREPARATION. Mucitace or Quince Szeps, (Mucilago Seminum Cydonii Mali. L.) Take of quince-seeds, one drachm ; distilled water, eight ounces, by measure : Boil, with a slow fire, for ten minutes ; then pass it through linen. This mucilage, though sufliciently agreeable, is perfectly superfluous, especiallyas it is apt to spoil, from being mixed with the other principles of the seeds soluble in water. It is, besides, neverso transparent as mucilage carefully prepared from gum arabic, is not cheaper, arid is unfit for many purposes, being coagulated byacids. CULINARY PREPARATION. Quince Puppine. Scald your quinces tender, pare them thin, scrape off the pulp, mix with sugar very sweet, and add little ginger and cinnamon. Toa pint of cream you must put three or four yolks of eggs, and stir it into your quinces till they are of a good thickness. Butter your dish, pour it in, and bakeit. RED OFFICINAL ROSE. ROSA GALLICA. Class XII. Icosandria, Order V. Polygynia. Essenr. Gen. Cnar. Petals five: Calyx urceolate, five-cleft, fleshy, nar- rowat the neck: Seeds many, hispid, affixed to the interior sides of the calyx. Spec. Cuan, Germens ovate, hispid: Stems and Petioles hispid-aculeate. a DESCRIPTION. Tue petals of this rose, though large and spreading, are not half so numerous as in the centifolia, and are of a deep crimson. HISTORY. Native of the south of Europe, now common in our gardens, flowering in June and July. PREPARATIONS. Conserve or Roses, (Conserva Rosz Gallice.) This is made like other conserves, but from the rose buds; and in this form, on account of the large proportion of sugar, only substances of considerable activity can be taken with advantage |