... Never !-.ms the sumble blackberry appreciatby the British housewife as it is to-day. 1t is a fact, though little known, that silk worms like the leaves of the black‘berry as well as those of the mulberry tree. The blackberry contains more juice than ...

... WILD VIOLETS IN OCTOBER. A correspondent writes to us to say that one day during the past week whilst blackberrying in a country lane near Tallaght, County Dublin, she came upon a bank of wild violets in full flower. The sight of these biue-eved children ...

... BLACKBERRIES. The blackberry is a delicious and wholesome fruit when the plants are grown in good soil and the fruit is allowed to hang some time after it is ripe; but it is not often that it can be gathered under such conditions, hence onc reason why ...

... which the| smell of petrol has never defiled, offer to the passer-by a rich harvest of that“ delicious, wild fruit, the blackberry,, even if one were never to gpen a gate, to collect the weath of fruit which is| temptingly hung of the hundreds of | acres ...

... of age, was . able to earn 5s and 6s a day during the blackberry season, picking blackberries. He also mentioned that sta. tions would have to be erected over the . Barony, and that the blackberries ! would have to be despatched the night - they were picked ...

... fresh emptied sugar bags, tied, not laced, and seat by goods train, -periments have also been made in B. 1 in pulping blackberries and Irelas des. The replies to enquiries cGab aph o firms who had purchased addressed nulp so made showeq that some of ...

... Buyers, jam manu.- tacturers particularly, prefer the Irish blackberry to any other, but complain of want of attention on the part of the shippers to market requirements. In 1905 some Irish blackberries were still being sent in very large casks holding 10 cwt ...

... MORE ABOUT BLACKBERRIES. The production of all kinds of cultivated fruit in Ireland is, according to the Journal of the Depastment ot Agriculture, on the increase; the consumption of it in the fresh state ic growing, if anything, at a faster rate, while ...

... be hoped, they will become, for somehow it looks as if they were being found out, so that if ad vices were: as plenty as blackberries 1 would not give them one. PASSIVE, But it can’t be said that the authorities take all this with the passiveness of a War ...

... deal fof the futuie ffc gahcn pgonie don't like to bhidscnglis‘:)g ;; ;;::‘ ms::l)'n }—agleiis;s I'PLY. lin{ Mor with the blackberry industry, now such | sended on the spirit of the Ct:hu:!z;u_ back (hear, hear). He by Mr Noble. | phy. Michael Curry, ...

... tins and glass jars for the Montreal mar ket. The Gaelic friend,who accompanied me, discussed with me a possibility of a blackberry industry for the London market in Wexford. If you can or‘ganise a_company (a joint stock com‘pany), I'll be a shareholder ...

... BLACKBERRY PICKING EXTRAORDINARY, ‘A dorrespondant ‘of the “Evenin Herald,” writes :—lt is wnl; no smafi amount of amazement it will be read that from the unpretentious town o} Cairri¢k-on-Suir there wdre exported during the past few months the immense ...