... part as bitter as it is now; when the rail had not made London as accessible as Kidderminster to Midlanders ; and when blackberries grew at the top of Yew-street! You will hardly believe that before Pugh and Payne commenced the trade, Birmingham could ...

... take the commonest things, observing that the bramt les of North Staffordshire were worthy of study, for there were real blackberries in the district. Dr. Fraser, he observed, had studied mosses, finding seveial new ones in tha district, and there was wide ...