In Somersetshire the Sloeis named Snag (as corrupted from "Slag," i.
If dried, they make a very fair substitute for tea, and when high duties were placed on imported tea, it was usual to find the sloe trees stripped of their marketable foliage.
The Sloe has been employed as a styptic ever since the time of Dioscorides.
Next to the Sloe in order of development comes the Bullace (Prunus insititia), a shrub with fewer thorns, and bearing its flowers after the leaves have begun to unfold.
Pray, Sir," said he, "are you ever able to bring the Sloe to perfection there?
Winter-picks is a provincial name for the Sloe fruit, [519] and winter-pick wine takes the place of port in the rustic cellar.
Sloe wine is useful in cases of diarrhoea, the astringent properties of this fruit tending to counteract relaxation of the bowels.
The sloe is a shrub common in our hedgerows, and belongs to the natural order Amygdaleae; the fruit is about the size of a large pea, of a black colour, and covered with a bloom of a bright blue.
Some of these are harmless, others are to a certain degree poisonous; as, for example, are the leaves of all the varieties of the plum and cherry tribe, to which the sloe belongs.
The wild sloe is the parent of the plum, but the acclimated kinds come from the East.
Properly matured sloe gin should be the colour of full-bodied port wine.
But since sloe gin became fashionable, it has become almost impossible for dwellers within twenty or thirty miles of London to make the cordial at home.
The manufacture of sloe gin is as simple as that of cherry brandy.
I sleep among the hills, The heather is my bed; I dip the termon-well for drink, And pull the sloe for bread.
Sidenote: Sloe and Duchess] "Sloe is always loose, but has a kennel to sleep in at nights in the stable-yard.
Sloe is one of those dogs that cannot resist temptation, and although she has often been whipped and scolded for massacring rabbits, never listens to the voice of conscience.
Sloe disappeared amongst the shrubberies, and found there her innocent victims.
Cool slightly and add one-half cup Sherry, three tablespoonsSloe gin and a sprinkle of salt.
As the waning light showed me her, I thought of a blossomed young sloe tree in her own far valley of the Old Dominion.
The Sloe (Prunus spinosa) is supposed by some botanists to be the origin of our cultivated plum, though others make it a separate species under the name of Prunus domestica.
The female, which is larger than the male, has a conspicuous greyish anal tuft, the hairs from which she uses to cover over her pale oily green eggs when they are deposited in clusters on twigs of hawthorn or sloe in February or March.
That is the tree of the old English song:-- 'From the white-blossomed sloe My dear Chloe requested A sprig her fair breast to adorn.
And as for Pearla, the rose on her cheeks was heightened by her rage against the invader, the delicate blossom of the sloe was not whiter than her neck, and her glossy chestnut ringlets fell to her waist.
The husband, who previously improved his health, his temper, and his intellect by a strictly moderate use of Skeffington's Sloe Gin, has now become a ghastly dipsomaniac.
Since I made the firm issue a weekly paper called Skeffington's Poultry Farmer, free to all country customers, the consumption of sloe gin has been enormous among agriculturists.
Skeffington's Sloe Gin adds a crowning pleasure to prosperity, and is a consolation in adversity.
The stuff they have put on the market is neither better nor worse than the average sloe gin.
Instead of a novel, however, he lights on a bottle of Skeffington's Sloe Gin.
The father of a family is unwrapping a bottle of Skeffington's Sloe Gin.
Skeffington's make jolly good sloe gin, but they can't arouse pity and terror.
I sketched out a skeleton plot in which the hero is addicted to a strictly moderate use of Skeffington's Sloe Gin.
The effect of a couple of large glasses of sloe gin was quickly apparent.
If I had not finished my sloe gin I should drink to your health!
Recovering himself he said with a smile: "You shall have another glass of sloe gin when you have grasped the situation.
THE THORN From the white blossom'd sloe my dear Chloe requested A sprig her fair breast to adorn, From the white blossom'd sloe my dear Chloe requested, A sprig her fair breast to adorn.
Roasted corn was to take the place of coffee, sloe leaves to be substituted for tea, and the use of spirits and ale was to be abandoned.
Sloe wine and green gooseberry wine, which latter is not recommended, are made like damson wine.
We poured some sloe gin into her and calmed her down, and then my eldest son took her home; and when he came back, he said that Bob Battle had gone to bed.
Anyway, Samuel come to tea, and he ate a big one and drank two glasses of thesloe gin after; and when he went away, he knew he loved Cicely Green better than anything in the world, and she knew she loved him.
A Hun's Grave lies there, and the sloe and blackthorn grow luxuriantly among the stones.
Bushes of the wild sloe here and there blocked up the path, so that they had to ride over them.
There was no time to contrast the merits of sloe gin with cocktails, for Hilda's voice was heard from the top of the staircase.
Bring two glasses of sloe gin and put them in two of those old `rummers.
They may be obtained in May, in their particular haunts, by beating sloe bushes with a beating tray, or an inverted open umbrella, held under to intercept the evicted caterpillars, etc.
The caterpillar is obtained by beating sloe bushes.
It has always been a local species, and although it appears to frequent hedgerows occasionally, its haunts generally are open grounds in the neighbourhood of woods, where blackthorn or sloe is plentiful.
