... 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 ...

... on the summit Calendar wood, might have seen the splendid prospect studded all over with churches and chapels, thick as blackberries, both connexion with the Establishment and with the go-ahead bodies that have shook themselves free of her trammels. There ...

... 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 ...

... average heat was but moderate, some of the grapes approached the size of small gooseberries, and many were as large as blackberries; but this year it has not offered so much as to flower, which says more for the coldness of the season than anything else ...

... knight, who, when thus challenged, exclaims, in'his own mock heroics, Give you a reason on compulsion ? If re were as plenty blackberries, I would give no man reason compulsion. From such an important personage we must just take thankfully what can get. After ...