... blackthorn, and elder berries, which furnish the farmer with a cordial cup on his return from market on a winter's eve, and blackberries reminding us of the babes in the wood, and a host of boyhood's associations. The hedgerows are also brightened with a profusion ...

... yet bare, while the hedges are glittering with berries of various colours—the red tips of the rose, the deep purple of the blackberry, the fruit of the hawthorn, the scarlet and green berries of the nightshade, while the holly and ivy begin to put brighter ...