... might with advantage be tried, at any rate as an experiment, on this side of the Atlantic, Here in England the bramble, or blackberry, is confined-save in a few isolated instances wwhere its development has been attemnptdJ, and not without success-to one ...

... long way off, remind us of the blackberries, and tell us that small hands are already busy among the bushes. It is out of the question that we should do more than contemplate the fruit before us. Even a common blackberry bush is a picture at this time ...

... between the Rhine and the Moselle is, generally speaking, very poor. As a help to the people, blackberry-wine making was started a very few years ago. Blackberries there, as in Ireland, may be had by the ton weight for the gathering. The peasants could sell ...

... cultivate blackberries, I should be glad to know if the fern-leaf blackberry of the nurseryman produces better fruit on sand than the common, and if there is any drawback to growing the fern-leaf blackberry in places where the common blackberry grows ? ...

... poor are eagerly gathering in their harvest of mush- rooms, blackberries, and garden fruits. In Cheshire there is a scarcity of mushrooms this autumn, but there is an abundance of blackberries, and to the willing hand a few shillings can be readily picked ...

... lodgers, and the supply of houses falls far short of the demand. . . . The hill-sides, country lanes, pine woods, bilberry and blackberry thickets, wild flowers, and ferns, are unfailing sources of healthy outdoor recreation and occupation.' So far, so good; ...

... of great heights beyond. A bank covered with the scarlet and copper, bronze and purple of briars and the shining jet of blackberries basks in the warn sun. They call it Deadman's Bank, this peaceful, sunshiny place, with a curious suggestion *of horror ...

... INvOT 7: USHIROOJ1 s? A riv;v days cgo, under the title of Why not blackberries ? we ventured to ?? the advisability of devotirg a certain amount of attention to the culture of blackberries as a valuable feeder to the recently started jam-making factories ...

... and there were later the curious things that children eat-haws and vetches, sloes and crabs, and delicious blackberries. There is a blackberry that comes early, large and juicy, that is as champagnle to gooseberry wihe when compared with the dry sweet ...

... the interests of a great public question.-I remain, yours faithfully, REGINALD B. BRETrT. JuelY 3I, 1889, _ _ _ _ _ _ BLACKBERRY JAM FOR IRISH ILLS. To the EDITOR of ?? PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-Your correspondent's letter, headed BIakberry Jam for ...

... September ?? morning, seeing there was no chance of work in Leicester, I walked to Coventry, eating on the load a few blackberries from the hedges. I got to Coventry about seven o'clock, and sold two pairs of socks and a shirt for ninepence, and went ...

... kind : the tale of the Pioneer's Cottage, though somewhat dawdlingly treated, is original, graphic, and mildly tragic; Blackberry Farm (describing a site which Nature reclaims as her own) is naive and amusing. The fable about the narrator's Pegasus ...