SOME LITTLE REGARDED WILD FRUITS AND BERRIES
N0 one has to be told of the edibility of our wild strawberries, huckleberries, currants, cranberries, mulberries, raspberries, blackberries, elderberries, grapes and persimmons; nor of the pleasure
which some palates find in the bitterish tang that goes with the familiar wild plums and cherries, although the only use to which most housewives consider these last fitted is the manufacture of jams and jellies. It is more to the purpose, therefore, in this chapter to touch upon some less known fruits of the hedge and heath-using the word fruit in its limited popular sense as based on succulency, rather than with botanical accuracy.