... that he seriously launched out into fruit, with more apples of different varieties, pears, plums, raspberries and, later, blackberries and black currants. In 1923 he was approached by a Scottish firm to grow grass seed for them, He commenced growing on a ...

... sprang readily enough large crops of century scores, and runs, generally speaking, were as plentiful as the proverbial blackberries. Last season two cricketers. A. E. Stoddart. and Gunn scored over 2000 runs each. This year I doubt whether any batsman ...

... Royal British Vegetarian Cookery College.) Approximate cost per head i life. Elm-bark soup. Casserole curried toad-stools. Blackberry cutlets. Braised ash-leaves. Straw. Earth salad. Rain-water. Michaelmas-daisy crescents. Recipe for Elm-Bark Soup. Ingredients: ...

... the grouse is the common heather or ling (Calluna vulgaris). Other plants also help to swell the bill of fare, including blackberry, cranberry, cloudberry, bell heather, cross-leafed heath, cotton grass, bog myrtle, heath rush, sorrel, and various other ...

... still a hard-handed, soft-voiced son of Devon with a dog to retrieve your ball out of them, while you pick the luscious blackberries that festoon the rushes. Back in Bideford they are making gas masks with a rapidity which speaks well for amateur effort ...

... to the public. A new joy has been added to the breakfast-table. The logan berry, a cross between the rasp berry and the blackberry, makes the most delicious jam, and is a distinct novelty. The flavour is that of the finest raspberry, but the disagreeable ...

... There were roses, fragrant and fragile, the last of the season, China asters, both pink and white, in profusion, carnations, blackberry sprays, gladiolus, marigolds, blue, pink, white, red, yellow flowers all sorts and combinations of colour. Most of the parasols ...

... heather by the time they came to the Sixth could wander off into the land afterwards owned by the Wizard of Criccieth, eat blackberries, and meet cock- pheasants that were ornamental and not for the gun. Those who remembered about the Autumn Foursomes Competition ...

... the time to look to your soft fruits- a description which embraces gooseberries, currants, raspberries, loganberries, blackberries and various hybrid berries. Strawberries, too, come into the same category, but I shall ignore them in these notes on the ...

... Approach Many still tend to regard the country side as a huge, though ever-diminishing, playground space out of doors yielding blackberries or primroses according to the season, with the occasional farmhouse where eggs can be bought cheaply. With the increasing ...

... custom on any place where pheasant-shooting is taken seriously, the birds will wander at their own sweet will in search of blackberries and acorns and all that great variety of hedgerow fruits which is now glistening in the autumn sunshine and will come tumbling ...

... is after the bird, which now appears but the size of a sparrow as it makes for dear life for a stunted hedge of thorn and blackberry briars if it can but reach that haven it knows therein safety lies, for its enemy will not follow into covert. The falcon ...