... Switzerland. Tortoni's beats Chamouni hollow for ices, even for strawberry-ice, though strawberries in the Alps are as plenty blackberries elsewhere. As to peach-ice, apricot-ice, and pine-apple ice, when you reach the summit of the Alp, or the Faulhorn, you ...

... feathery tufts as high as minaret. Wherever I looked the vegetable world was all novelty in its beauty and grandeur. Save the blackberry, the ivy, and a sort of wild lint-bell, I recognised not one old friend among the ' field-flowers.' The fig-tree—the nopal—the ...

... beginning to pour out the delicacies of the season. Beautiful melons are abundant, and grapes will shortly as plentiful as blackberries. In some parts of Spain they cannot consume, the abundance grapes, and are obliged to throw them away loads. In others ...

... old—lst, Mr Thos. Geddes, Whitburn; 2d, Mr Graham, East Whitburn. the best pair of Cows- lst, Mr Smith; 2d, Mr Geo. Wallace, Blackberry Hill. the best Cow in milk, and 2 of her offspring—lst, Thos. Geddes; 2d, Mr John Montgomery. or the best Quey in milk, ...

... which are known, but also the richest fruits, such as tbe apple, pear, peach, plum, apricot, cherry, straw berry, raspberry, blackberry, &C, namely, that no fossils of plants belonging to this family have ever been discovered by geologists. This he regarded ...

... On Tuesday Mr M-Gregor, M.P., went with the Glas- gow magistrates to inspect the (lyde light-houses. are as plentiful as blackberries on board the Clyde steamers, and daily many ladies’ pockets are despoiled of money and trinkets. a fine small estate, in ...

... subscril that they possess in the black-berry, grown so unwillingly by them in their fields, the means at once 1g an excellent wine and valuable medicine for home use. To make a wine equal in value to take ripe black-berries and press them, let the juice ...

... Thornley. The two girls while walking in the fields met with the pri- soner, who, under the pretence that he would get some blackberries, took improper liberties withthem. He denied the charge, but was committed for trial at the next sessions.— Nottingham ...

... public woul open their eyes instead of their purses tu those pious inpostors who are getting just now “as plentiful as blackberries,” or, more appropriately speaking, “as thick as thieves.”— Punch. A CARD FROM THE Wanted forthwith a judicious unr wweller ...

... considering the number of summer tourist* always gauding about the Bridge of Allan and vicinity. Apologies were as thick as blackberries. Even Alexander Baillie Cochrane, Esquire, the descendant and representative of Sir William Wallace, through his daughter ...

... tavern door. This basket being mil of fruit, Did attention seize; ' 'Twas crammed with berries black soot, In ane word, blackberries. Now, to that tavern if go, And happen there to dine. There's one thing I won t do I know I'll call for no Port wive. THE ...

... the'winding up of a concern so majestic, disputes, evasions, quirks, counter-claims, end repetitions would arise as thick as blackberries ; the law's delay would complicate the matter finely, and at the close of some years the trustee of the Western Bank ...