... as plentiful as black- berries. FEIEND And they were not ? GRKENHOBX Well, ye J, they were; but, you see, there are no blackberries in that region. ...

... wooden fences:; nails and shreds are used. Blackberries are not much cultivated, possibly because in many parts they fruit so abundantly in a wild state. Those who would like to grow our native blackberries might give them the same culture as raspberries ...

... less ground, and one-third less time is occupied in moving and feeding the rabbits. Cultivating Blackberries. It hAs generally been said that the blackberry deteriorated immediately it was cultivated, aud this has been borne out by experience. It is probable ...

... group of blackberries worked with foliage, and a very pretty set for dessert might be made by working different fruit on each d'oyley. The background, too, might be vaned take for instance white for strawberries, pale brown for blackberries, pink for ...

... 11 d Down Quilt, 10119cL Mrs Younghusband wants to know Which is the best way to mark table linen ? Leave the baby and a blackberry pie alone ab the table for three minutes. Mr Smibh, said a lady at the fair, won't you please buy a bouquet to present ...

... nuts and their accompanying foliage. Amongst the favourite artificial fruits for mil- linery we shall most probably note blackberries and red currants, as well as tiny pears and apples. The ideas seems rather incongruous in our opinion. Ostrich plumes and ...

... top of the leaves, but the stitches are varied slightly in length, so as to form an indented edge peculiar to this fern. Blackberry is another favourite flower which, conven- tionalised into design, is easily rendered in Mountmellick. The flower it will ...

... doors. A real holiday at ome iu Saptember and the earliest part of October, when gleaning, potuto-dipging, fruit- nicking, blackberrying, nutting, hopping, fishing, nd other kindred pleasures draw one out of oors, is a thing unknown to dwellers in towns nd ...

... want to know whether it is red or aubnrn; girls who want recipes for curing pimples, hair dye, and so on, are as common as blackberries, as are also girls who write somewhat in this style A young man took me home from a party the other night and pressed my ...

... plantation cf strawberries should be made every second year, the old on« standing until the new one begins to bear well. Blackberries pay in some places, but the instances are so few and far between that it is hardly worth while io risk any moneyorspac ...

... the bushes are kept fairly open, and in proportion to their size not overcrowded with wood, good crops will be had. Where blackberries are grown the'i treatment should be much the same as rasp- berries, but the shoots may be well restricted to about six ...

... hopeless ruin. Ah how little it takes to make the heart light and glad, and yet less per- haps to make it heavy and sad. Hints. BLACKBERRY VINEGAR.—Pour one quart of vinegar over one quart of brambles, let it stand 24 hours, squeeze out the juice, and put into ...