... was an elevated green spot surrounded by an ancient square earthwork earthworks square, and not square, were as common as blackberries hereabout a spot whereon the Caster- bridge people usually held any kind of merry-making, meeting, or sheep-fair that required ...

... trees have been killed for miles, and the leaves withered and torn even behind the first row of blighted life and growth. Blackberries are late and small, nor are the nuts good. On the farm threshing continues to take up a good deal of time, for farmers ...

... tradesman in a first- rate way of business She had only to pick and choose. Humph Honest tradesmen are not as plentiful as blackberries, though, observed Mr. Weatherhead, reflectively. Mrs. Dobbs ignored this parenthesis, and went on: It was a bad day for ...

... find myself in a country road, bounded on one side by fields of maize with their irrigating^ streams, and on the other by a blackberry-laden and flower-decked hedge. Farther on, in the distance, to the right, are the neighbouring hills, richly clothed with ...

... winner of a steeple chase. 4. JACAMAR, bay gelding, aged, by Cardinal York out of Seliy Oalc winner of steeplechases. 5. BLACKBERRY, black mare, aged, by Welling- tonia. 6. HIGHSPRING, 7 years, by St. Leger; winner of jumpingprize Dublin Horse Show, 1SSS; ...

... winner of a steeple chase. 4. JACAMAR, bay gelding, aged, by Cardinal York out of Selly Oak winner of steeplechases. 5. BLACKBERRY, black mare, aged, by Welling- tonia. 6. HIGHS PRING, 7 years, by St. Leger; winner of jumping prize Dublin Horse Show, ...

... warm weather at the end of August and first fortnight of September. The drawback of blackberry bushes is their attracting trespassers. It may be added that the blackberry responds to cultivation, and we believe that with a little botanical care the size ...

... remarkable experiences of n,e.\£ crops. His first idea, derived from a daily paper of unques tioned sobriety, was to grow blackberries for jam-making. He bought a number of first-class brambles, which were to bear, so the nursery gardeners said, fruit as ...

... they followed was so solitary that the hazel nuts had remained on the boughs till they slipped from their shells, and the blackberries hung in heavy clusters. Every now and then Angel would fling the lash of his whip round one of these, pluck it off, and ...

... an interesting instance of his gourmand taste. The crop of a greyhen which I opened, he says, contained rasp berries, blackberries, ants, heather, grass, and oats, and the bird, after having half filled her crop with the grain, had evidently com pleted ...

... due to foni in May. yearlings. 4. A BAY FILLY by Southampton out of Dynami- tard. 5. A CHESXUT FILLY by Southampton out of Blackberry by Lowlander out of a mare (the dam of Frontier ami Horizon) by Saccharometer out of Duty Free, bv Lnmbton. 0. A BROWN FILLY ...

... bunches of wild roses and blackberries, while an inner border has a moss scroll with charming bramble foliage closely entwined, the centre-piece forming a circle of white roses and rosebuds, with centre of leaves and blackberries, all true to nature and ...