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... same firm, Mrs Hulme has figured and described the commnn vetch and the dewberry. The dewberry has a close affinity to the blackberry, and some of the varieties of each are found to closely approach each other; but one ordinarily finds no difficulty in identify- ...

The Home

... forcemeat or bread and onion dressing may be used. iBLAClEBERlRY WVINE. N~ow that the blackberry season is approaching many folks will be glad to knowl howv to make blackberry wine. Put them mn a cask set on end, open at the top, and with a tap near the bottom ...

ART NOTES

... At the sale of the pi5b of Mr. ry of f 2e id, of Brighton, last week, at Crlrstz sane and at well-known works appeared. Blackberry . e -Gati, by Gorge Mason, AURA, was, secured by Mcsz ?? for £61480, who A of intend to engrave it T4e Rjght of Way,'> ...

FINE ARTS

... ew'reiJi *d il sutbjects, nd D. Harding - i magnificent 'wisLndccap- (100), painted with great care and vigour. - The Blackberry Gatherers -of Collins (106), is one of that artist's sweete'st pictures,; and not far from it is suspended a noble Welch ...

A BATCH OF EPIGRAMS

... word remarked, moreover, will probably bethought IP To indicate compteteness, and so it ought. ot VHAT'S IN A NAME 7 at Blackberries, the proverb says, t Are not really black always. 3i Thin saew is edged with reason, It As we have seen this season ...

GOSSIP WITH THE CHILDREN

... silence, you may be sure. It was autumn,' and the blackberries were ripe. Now and then they came across a black- berry bush, and stopped to gather the berries before they went on. But as they met many a blackberry bush, and had a dispute over each one that they ...

NEW BOOKS

... Aunt Dacic, Major Birt, Mlazie Birt, Lucelle McGregor, Dumphie McGregor, and the Rev. Louis Draycott were as plentiful as blackberries amongst us. These are the leading characters in Louis Draycott: the Story of his Life, by Mrs. Laffan (Chapman and Hall) ...

FINE ARTS

... appreciated in the summer, as a dessert at the Academy teast; and in the same class W. Hunt has some marvellously tempting blackberries and plums. T. Uwins astonishes with twoor three little pieces-specimen bricks of the edifice he raised else- where; and ...

FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY

... with black lace. The front has a half wreath of brown heath, and velvet leaves; in the inside the same flowers mixed with blackberries. Blond cap and green satin strings. A felt-coloured velvet bonnet had the curtain of blue velvet and white lace ; a torsade ...

NATURE FOR ITS OWN SAKE.*

... and the soul to feel them. A chlimp of hazel on the upland meadow, around which the daisies grow, and through %which the blackberry twines its white blo-ssoms, may he a wonder-world of bemuty if we study it in its formn and colour, its setting, light, ...

THE TERCENTENARY FUND AND THE Dramatic College

... dilated with national prideas to pour out unbounded wealth to the honour of the Immortal Bard, that suggestions, plenty as blackberries, have been thrown out as to the best means in which to spend this anticipated redundancy, apart from the plans already ...

Published: Sunday 06 March 1864
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 894 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SHAKSPEREAN FESTIVAL at STRATFORD on Avon

... was told by Wilkinson that be could find better actors than Liston in every roadside hedge; they were as plontiful as blackberries! Some few days arter this unjust and, I need scarcely say, untrothsful remark, the Manager was taking his usual walk ...

Published: Sunday 26 April 1863
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1919 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture