... watercress and blackberry jam. Holt took the chair she pointed out to him, draw it up to the table, and accepted her hospitality with wondering gratitude. Never in his life had anything tasted so rood as the tea and hot toast and blackberry jam. I'm in ...

... distilling. They made preserves, the very names of which are now hardly remembered, and many homely growths were turned to wine—blackberry wine, rhubarb wine, currant wine, elderberry wine, cowslip wine: there was no end to the homely vintages. Then was a gooseberry ...

... heading back of shoots on which fruit-buds are produced. All plants, such as peaches, raspberries, currants, quinces, and blackberries, which develop blase= buds on last season's wood or on a leafy shoot springing from a winter terminal bud, can be thinned ...

... wild berries become, by cooking, very good eating. Many know what nice tarts and puddings and syrups can be made of the blackberries, but few are aware of the delightful flavour of ripe stewed or baked elderberries. Figs are not often cooked, but the dried ...

... sunder. Standard pears about 12 feet. peaches and nectarines 20 feet, plums 20 feet, apricota2o feet, currants 4 by 8, blackberries 4 by 7, and raspberries 3 by 6. AcTuaLnerrixo.—Probably few trees will be ready for planting until November this year. ...

... seven and five respectively, and who we re named Arthur and Freddie, were blackberrying the other day with their mother. As was likely with children of that age, more blackberries found their way Into their mouths than into their baskets. Their mother noticed ...

... time of illhealth and will help to keep his roll going. Actions for breach of promise of marriage are almost as thick as blackberries in the Court of Session at the present time. If they do not settle there should be good times in store for the great ...

... field wait now wet enough to raise fine berries, so, as a desperate resort, be borrowed a few dollars, and planted it with blackberries, gooseberries, currants, and rhubarb, and started in as a truck farmer. In a few years (so he told me) he sold over twenty ...

... of the school-bell. If you ain't frightened, why don't you come? argued Harry Brown. I tell you they are the finest blackberries, and I know where a prime lot of conquerors are. Come on, Ja - k no one'll know. But its wrong, Harry, faltered Jack ...

... in soil or moss. They generally thrive best with bottom heat, but most kinds. will grow in the open also. Such plant' as blackberries, bovrardies, peaches, cherries, apples, pears, etc., are readily increased in this way wider frame culture. Horse-radish ...

... coastguard for • period of twenty-five years, they will receive as much as 6s per day; but these appointments are scarce as blackberries in June. It must be admitted that the pay of these guardians of our rockbound coasts is not excessive, even when the fact ...

... table.puonful of finely cracked ice in the bottom of a lemonrde glass, and over st an d orange soup. Currant, raspberry, blackberry cherry soups are all made in the same way. Fruit soup is served as first course at a luncheon. IXfore. Ftarobo, said t'e ...