Preserves

Although, generally speaking, the Scottish climate is unfavourable to fruit, an exception must be made in favour of berries. It is to the native sweetness of the strawberries and raspberries, which ripen slowly in mild sunshine, that the excellence of Scottish jams is mainly due; whilst ‘the Highlands,’ remarks Mrs. C. W. Earle in Pot-pourri from a Surrey Garden, ‘seem to be the home of the gooseberry—such old and hoary bushes, more or less covered by grey lichens, but laden none the less with little hairy gooseberries, both red and green, and full of flavour.’