... BLACKBERRY CULTURE. Our fruit growers may gather a profitable hint from the following paragraph which we cull from a London contemporary : — A new rural industry is being opened up in Kent —namely, the cultivation of blackberries for profit. Enormous ...

... GARDEN BLACKBERRIES. There yet remains another class of Rasp- berries, or i Blackberries, to be noticed. These, though known in England as Rasp- berries, obviously partake more of the charac- ter of Blackberries or Brambles. The oldest and best known ...

... grand time for preserve makers for real blackberry jam. The following receipt for jelly, as some people object to the seeds found in the jam, is easy and economical.— Blackberry Jelly. Take four quarts of blackberries, add one quart of water and allow ib ...

... managed to steal enough clothingbto cover himself. He left Portland, but, when hidingina field, was surgrisod by two men blackberrying. They offered to show him the way to Blandford, but instead led him to two police inspectors. At the Llest colliery disaster ...

... creamy elder mellowed into wine, The russet hip that was the pink-white rose ; The amber woodbine into rubies turned, The blackberry that was the bramble born ; Nor let the seeded clematis be spurned. Nor pearls, that now are corals, of the thorn. Look ...

... week's work done, his wages in his pocket, and glad that to-morrow is the Sabbath. He gives a charming picture of picking blackberries and drinking from the icy cold streams on the high ground near the Equator. Mr. Stanley and Emm Pasha reached Bagamyo yesterday ...

... a million or so, especially on heavy settling days, would' seem to be a nutter of course, if not quite as plentiful as blackberries. A few years ago the Manchester Ship Canal Company, when buying out the Bridgewater Trustees' drew one cheque for a million ...

... WOMEN WORKERS IN AMERICA The women in America are invading every sphere of employment. Female doctors are as plentiful as blackberries, and women are admitted to the Bar ia some of the States. Mrs. Ada M. Ritten- bender, a lady banister, has just been nominated ...

... A PERILOUS POSITION AND A PLUCKY RESCUE. Last Saturday afternoon, a little boy named Hughes, while picking blackberries on the cliffs between Fermain Bay and Doyle's Monument, in treading upon a treacherous spot, overgrown with brambles, lost his footing ...

... a lift from the bull there. 'Tis delightful to range the woods when they change, And the nuts get riper and riper, And blackberries sweet invite you to eat, — If you don't get a bite from a viper. It's charming to float with the tide, in your boat, When ...

... Cockburn — Grapes. Miss Corbin — Grapes. Dr. Corbin— Grapes. Mrs. Alfred Collings — Cushion covers. Misses Robinson — Blackberries, flowers. Mr. Poidevin — Fruit, vegetables. Mrs. Riches— Grapes, apples. Mrs. Julius Carey — Apple3. Mrs. Powell — Bottle ...

... moming mist and eveninfhaze (Unlike tbis cold grey-rime) Seemed woven warm of. golden air — When 1 was in my prime. . . And blackberries- so mawkish now— Weteitoelylijwouredthen . .. And nnte -.such reddening clusters ripe I ne'er shall pull again. Nor st ...