... really does not afford us the means of gratifying their desire. Mawkishness pervades its pages, and mistakes are plenty as blackberries. Such works, having to claims to literary merit, are only to be classed among trade specu- lations. Queen Hortense has ...

... apples and pears of small size, such as still grow in the Swiss forests, stones of the wild plum, seeds of the raspberry and blackberry, and beech-nuts, also occur in the mud, and hazel-nuts in great plenty. Near Merges, on the Lake of Geneva, a settlement ...

... for trespassing in a wood belonging to the Misses Starkey, of Hattrin Hall, and taking therefrom, on the 15th of October, blackberries (wild brambles) of the value of six- pence, or thereabouts. The gamekeeper stated he had cautioned the defendant more than ...

... wreaths of spring flowers, of ivy, passion- flower, May, convolvulus, apple-blossom, wheat and oat, with poppy, harebell and blackberry, &c., of jasmine and of lily and of rose, look as if artist and engraver had bent with unflagging delight, refreshing and ...

... no lemons, cherries, or currants raised at Fuhchau, and no berries of any kind, as strawberry, gooseberry, whortleberry, blackberry, raspberry, &c. The pine-apple, plantain, cocoa-nut, mango, and a fine variety of pumelo, are brought from Formosa or Amoy ...