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Certain larger crab-apples, in which the blossom end is not clean or bare, as the Transcendent and Hyslop, are probably hybrids between the true crabs and the common apple; this class provides the main crab-apples of the markets. When the settlers came to the country west and south of New England, they found another kind of crab-apples in the woods, truly native.
Put up when cold in small jars, and paste paper over them. Make sirup as directed above. Use raspberries, strawberries, or any small fruit, and boil for half an hour. Put up in small jars or tumblers; lay papers dipped in brandy on the fruit, and paste on covers, or use patent jelly-glasses. Quinces make the best; but crab-apples or any sour apple are also good.
It was the summer that I myself was born. I can remember hearing my father and mother talk about it before I could see. My father used to go and see them, and report their progress to my mother on his return. "They can see to-day." "They have curled themselves up. Every one of them. Six beautiful little balls; as round as crab-apples and as safe as burrs!"
These crab-apples are probably natural hybrids between Pyrus Malus and the prairie crab, P. ioensis. Had there been no European apple to be introduced by colonists, it is probable that improved forms would have been evolved from the native species. In that event, North American pomology would have had a very different character.
Towards the stern of a fishing smack there is a stout upright post with a fork at the top, into which fork the mast is lowered while they are engaged with the nets at sea. It is called the "mitch," or "match," but though I mention it as similar in sound, I do not think it has any other affinity. Of old time, crab-apples were usually planted in or near rickyards or elsewhere close to farmhouses.
Skim very carefully, boiling till no more rises, and it is ready for use. Peaches, pears, green gages, cherries, and crab-apples are all preserved alike. Peel, stone, and halve peaches, and boil only a few pieces at a time till clear. Peel, core, and halve pears. Prick plums and gages several times. Core crab-apples, and cut half the stem from cherries. Cook till tender.
Shall we, the afflicted and jaundiced patients, still suffering from the virulence and effect of sin, condemn the medicine because it does not turn us out cured in a single day? Still, even to fruits we can appeal, mingled and confounded with crab-apples though they be. Come, sceptic, make a trial of it. Go to the Fiji Islands; get yourself wrecked among them.
If the purpose of free institutions is good government where is the good government? when may it be expected to begin? how is it to come about? Systems of government have no sanctity; they are practical means to a simple end the public welfare; worthy of no respect if they fail of its accomplishment. The tree is known by its fruit. Ours, is bearing crab-apples.
But at her age mother was broken down and old. She had to be. There were nine of us, and here there's only little Dudley, and it was so long before he came." They sat quietly. The setting sun flamed through the crab-apples and burnished the fur of the tortoise-shell cat. The mint smelled strong.
The Colonel, to his credit, as I think, was so enthusiastic over all matters military that he was rather long-winded in his account, and, in like fashion with our housewifely Kate, it behoves me, so to speak, to make a jar of jelly out of a pan of fruit, which is easier done with crab-apples than words.
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