... 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 ...

... 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 ...