... two thin slices of bread and butter, Is the best poison for mice. MI IUaS.-Complaints of Eeedshop seeds are plentiful as blackberries. Go to nurseries. Antirrhiniims want no protection, and a garden frame will do for mimunus. A. D.-1870 two-year-old seedling ...

... woods that grow up into the hills, and turf and moss that spread beneath them, and little hamlets dotting the wayside, and blackberry hedges by the road. There are many little torrents bubbling across the footpath, and these must be crossed on the roughest ...

... going to begin now. With a slight change in Falstaff's words they would each and all say, If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would receive no reason upon compulsion, I. It is of no use, therefore, to argue with the Asylums Board. If the garden ...

... grow undler any circumstances if severedfrom its patent plant. NASIR OF PLANT.-K. D.-lf your olant has really fruit like a Blackberry-divided, that is. into sections, as boththeseand Raspberries are, we fail to recognise it. We think it has red berries, ...

... birds have gone on breeding until it is literally tout perdreau, partridges being as plentiful in the Champagne plains as blackberries on an English common. As during our day's drive we did not encounter a single gendarme or garde champ~tre, it is the Champenois ...

... electioneering of its old picturesque features. There was a time when anec- dotes of election contests were as plenty as blackberries,' but ana of this subject must now be regarded as complete. If there is any butcher in these days who, with excusable venality ...

... twelve, living in Derby, were returning home yesterday by Little Eaton Canal-side from the country, where they had been blackberrying, when the younger accidentally fell into the water. The brother, endeavouring to catch hold of him, also fell in, and both ...

... h gohlfinchses, bulhfao'tnces, woodlerles, and cha~f~ kacl'es. The best itime for citulhing hullfihicheos is hiP Fn the blackb~erry time9--viZ., September flnd. October. Birdhiminui is Oi moree SnOr'ting nuode tt catching birds than netting^. The bullfinch- ...

... the plan seems reasonable enough. Secretaryships being comparatively rare, while would-be secretaries are as plentiful as blackberries, it enables the employer to winnow out ineligible candidates. The concern finds its resources increased by additional capital ...

... bren out for a drive, and passed sonle hedges with Clematis and Brvony growing in luxuriance. I had some picked, along with Blackberry Briars, and have jutst tilled the flower-stand with them, the stalkis being stuck in seltzer-water bottles. You would admire ...

... thirteen, named Thomas Denyer, at Bramley. The complainant said that on Wednesday after- noon he was in a field gathering blackberries, when the prisoner came up and laid claim to the berries he had gathered. A struggle took place between the boys, and the ...

... appeared'the6 eceased was ?? of age. He aceompaniectltree dther boys on Sunday week ?? for thepurpose of Vather- ing some blackberries. While on the common de- ceased went up to a ?? that was giazing and coni- menced playing with the animal, which suddenly ...