... GARDEN BLACKBERRIES There yet remains another class of Raspberries or Blackberries to be noticed. These, though known in England as Raspberries, obviously partake more of the character of Blackberries or Brambles. The oldest and best known of these is ...

... Blackberries and Mushrooms Blackberries and mushrooms are now being picked in large quantities. To the growth of both of these commodities much less attention is devoted by country people than shouid be- Usually they are allowed to run to waste, or to ...

... during the winter. The flavour of the high Blackberry is well known to be greatly su- perior to the common low Blackberry ; yet every cultivator is aware, that, except in some favourable localities, the bigh Blackberry is a sby and ca- pricious bearer, and ...

... Pendarves, last week gathered Buf ficient blackberries to add a tart to his Christma 8 table. Buttercups, primroses, and dandelion 8 are also plentiful in the sheltered valleys of Pen darves. Ripe blackberries were picked at Lis keard on Saturday. A ...

... paper and bladder. . w Blackberry jelly prepared as above is quite as good as Damsou ; all the delicious flavour of the fruit is pre- served and the whole of the pips are got rid of— so large and disagreeable an ingredient in Blackberry puddinrs and jams in ...

... There is a Cornish legend still extant that the devil on Michaelmas Eve touches a blackberry which then becomes poisonous. It is unsafe after Michaelmas-day to cat blackberries in case of meeting the poisoned one. ...

... Badcock. coach builder.of Holsworthy, went to a farm of her master's, three miles distant, with' Mrs. Sophia Braund, to pick blackberries. Whilst on the farm she was seized with illness, and Mrs. Braund at once took steps to get her home, ln passing a linhuy ...

... been elected representa- tive of tbe congregation of St. Peter's, Newlyn, for the run-decanal conference. Three ripe wild blackberries, as perfect as in Septem- ber, and also a bunch of red berries, were gathered In the last week near Portloe, by a little ...

... 405., and £4 costs, tor having assaulted two young ladies, pupils at a B:th school, lhey had the uiistortuue tobe picking blackberries io his field, when the brute struck them violently with a heavy stick. Noble Conduct of a Young Lady. — An act of courage ...

... salt will strengthen it; thus we have only to dose the world with salt, and centenarians are to become as plentiful as blackberries or newborn babes.” There might be something in the contention were it not for the fact that salt is a mineral, and that ...

... little laggard stay ! So swift of foot as she ever has been. It is not so far, by the meadow way. To the lane where the blackberry vines begin. Her mother stands in the door-way there. Shading her eyes from the netting sun, And up and down, with an anxious ...

... a black funnel with a white cross. Mr. W. Thomas, on Saturday, cut a branch from a bramble bearing a nice bunch of ripe blackberries. I have been favoured with a look, but unfortunately not a taste of them, but judging from appearance they are very luscious ...