... fur. It is a. very beautiful one. as I daresay moat of you know, but the girls who wear it are not quite so plentiful as blackberries. But why is it not common if it is so beautiful ? For very good reasons. The chinchilla is a very small animal, its home ...

... at a simple industry they had in the North of England in the autumn. The poor people were in the habit of going to pick blackberries in the country lanes, and within three or four months about £100 was paid to the people who gathered these berries, and ...

... drying bay fell unnoticed on his olfactory organ; the languishing hawthorn blossoms, the green hedge- tOws, the flowering blackberry brambles, the showy armies of wild flowers, wide spaces of 1raving grain crops arrested his vision not for more than an ...

... the bushes are kept fairly open, and in proportion to their size not overcrowded with wood, good crops will be had. Where blackberries are grown the'i treatment should be much the same as rasp- berries, but the shoots may be well restricted to about six ...

... pronounce L)! without knowing more about its nature, Yn„ „ way in which it is fastened to the ground. Jf.T ^rnnot remove blackberry or gooseberry bushes. feistcW £ ai' question has been already dealt with. Hot ? CotJ-,iCiL (Rhys).—(I) A parish councillor ...

... over this wall, dropping their fruit into the ruts of the road, and on the opposite side rose a steep, green bank topped by blackberry bushes. This bye-way was little frequented, and here quiet constantly reigned, unbroken save by the voices of buds. It was ...

... down and all over and say, Now, then, Samuel, if you've made a fule o yertelf long 'nuff cum in hare and git a piece 0' blackberry pie and » glass o* milk and then 'tend to them hogs and oalvos and corn and 'takers, and ack the Lord to foMrive yon ftm ...

... disorder of her sister' surroundings. Papillon clapped her hands n.t sight of the large plum cake, the jug of milk, and bowl of blackberry conserve. I was so hungry, she said, apologetically, after Denzil had supplied her with generous slices of cake and large ...

... less ground, and one-third less time is occupied in moving and feeding the rabbits. Cultivating Blackberries. It hAs generally been said that the blackberry deteriorated immediately it was cultivated, aud this has been borne out by experience. It is probable ...

... centre of the table nothing can look prethw or more effective than a centre-piece bordered -.vitli Virginia creeper and blackberry trails, if properly prepared. Long healtey trails phould gathered in their prune and painted rtfth two or three coats of ...

... it. Close to it hung King Humbert's crown of white lilies, while immediately behind was suspended the Sdean's wreath of black-berried bay and the uchess of Connaught's wreath of white and red oa.mehas. Princess Beatrice's wreath remained on the c..ffil1 ...

... he would try it, and he plunged in under the bushes. After wandering about for a good three-quarters of an hour. eating blackberries, smoking, musing by the wayside, losing his way and being put right by farmer's men, who wondered who on earth he could ...