... the shrewd hint of a north-east wind. The haws and the mountain ash berries seem plentiful this year, but there are no blackberries. Even on the sunny landslip' of the Isle-of Wight they have never ripened, and in most places they lack even a touch of ...

... 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 ...

... 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 caie the size ...

... cindery lanes-for you are treading on extinct volcanos everywhere-with their tremendous grasshoppers, and their luscious blackberries. If you do this, and shirk the waters, then Royat does you a power of good. My uppermost recollection of Royat is, of course ...

... remarkable experiences of new 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 ...

... perhaps in one case out of a million-spoil the illusion. It is the same with your fine-looking men, who are as plentiful as blackberries. You can trust them to he magnificent as Cevur de Lion smiting the Saracen, or Front de Bmeuf running after Rebecca over ...

... the hope that they might drop through on the heads of those inside. Pepper was in his element-heads being as plentiful as blackberries, and much easier to get at. But it would take more than the fear of a cracked cranium to deter his fellow-townsmen from ...

... prove to have been at all invariably attended by injury to the fruit. The crop is reckoned half an average. Iledgenuits, blackberries, and mushrooms are plentiflith Vt of England this season, and the great abundance of ordinaryh nu'tsi remarked from other ...

... their bill of fare then is an agree- able contrast to the luxuries of the coops and the feeding-whistle. The pheasant likes blackberries, sloes, haws, seeds of various kinds, tender leaves, and insects. How the old-fashioned hedgerow offers all these I And ...

... you must plant flowers for them. Bees fly far afield in search of such forage as white clover, apple blossoms, heather, blackberry blossoms, and the flowers of the lime tree can supply. What they like best is a flower which, besides being a good pro. ...

... Porthlo nestles on the hillside. Then, leaving Carn Marvel and Sandy Bar, with the slopes between alive with fern and juicy blackberries, we cross the Roads, our pilot assuring the nervous that the terrible Dammy Sin- ncrs ledge is well to windward. Away ...

... of the lieutenant, who calls out the number of the flags forming the signal he wishes to make. BLACKBERRYING' Our picture with the title Blackberrying takes us into the heart of some lovely English county. Husband and wife with their seven or eig ...