... THE BLACKBERRY. The blackberry bush what cad is because it happens to be common in the vegetable world ! If were exotic, growing here and there, and only growing at all when you cursed it, made much of it, manured it, and all the rest, then should have ...

... their size is very large, nearly or quite equalling the best specimen o the new Rochelle blackberry. In quality and flavour they are far superior to any blackberry known, aud are very prolific and hardy. The plot of ground which Dr. M. has devoted to ...

... which are known, but also the richest fruits, such as the apple, pear, peach, plum, apricot, cherry, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, &c.: namely, that no fossils of plants belonging to this family have ever been discovered by geologists This he regarded ...

... only resigning the post, so satisfactorily idled, a very few years ago. Nuts are this year as prolific as the proverbial blackberries, and whilst pupil from the ramus* Sciiool was nutting day or two ago he found a cluster containing well-formed nuts. The ...

... go if he told a lie. He said supposed should where all the lawyers went. Blackberries. The hedges and woods in this district are this season literally covered with blackberries, and hundreds of women and children find abundant employment gathering this ...

... Gardeners' Chronicle.. The Season.—l gathered last Saturday, December 12. in the neighbourhood of Farnliam, two fine bunches of Blackberry blossoms; they were particulary large, and had some jrreeu fruit them of considerable size. This imagine to be rather uncommon ...

... smaller quadrupeds, yet his food is principally derived from the vegetable and insect worlds. Chestnuts, roots all kinds, blackberries, beechmast, aud all manner of bee. ties, furnish his ordinary supplies; while even frogs and snakes contribute to vary ...

... to 3 0 Mushrooms, lb. 0 0 to 0 3 3 to 0 0 » i Plums „ o 3 to 0 5 0 0 6 Damsons 0 4 to 0 5 0 0 to 0 0 Blackberries 0 2J to 0 3 oto 0 0 Eggs (hen) 11 to 12 for Is. 10 to 11 for Is. Eggs (duck) 9to 00 for Is. 9 toCO ...

... gathered for It appears that on Sunday a party of lads from neighbourhood of Richmond Hill, Leeds, went oat , country gather blackberries. They were dark purple fruit, and asked a farmer what it His reply was, that was the mulberry, and was a very rich fruit ...

... f as * lilios in t,u> mine, ' 1 rob ' hedge, and glad content is *** branch, pomegranate, >o«*, sloes. liaS ,ts its blackberries, and bank; Ye bm» his native bramble Proud of the croak'd stick d nd basket at his Our songsters, too, oh ! who « .slighting ...

... but we have not been troubled with them at all. The wild fruits, such as grapes, figs, plums, strawberries, and immense blackberries, are Very abundant. I intend growing cotton and maize chiefly, these are the staple commodities here. The soil rather ...

... variety of the Black Cap (Rubus occidentalis), called the Ohio Everbearing. This is a curious fruit, seeming as much a blackberry as a raspberry, its berries being very firm, black, and partially covered with a white web-like film. Moreover, in this ...