... Gardens, and from the gardens of A. Lawrence, and R. Glegg, Stonehaven, were really splendid. The fruit, especially the blackberries, were splendid, considering the backward season. Mr Sicvewright, Ironfield Sawmills, Stonehaven, contributed, as usual ...

... Alex. Taylor gave an answer, I had doubt it would be in Falstaff's vein, and so it turns out. “ Though reasons be plenty blackberries,” quoth that ancient worthy, I would give no man reason on compulsion, I. True, the only compulsion in Taylor’s case is ...

... ! woman and children walking along the canal bank. . 4. There are many true friends t '•bo The children were gathering blackberries time, have no fakb in the ‘' missive Kill; and nooiie exo.p. I ' and the men heard the woman talking to her children. ...

... silver , plate offered to the most successful competitor in pot plants, cut flowers, fruit, and vegetables combined, j Blackberries were good ; back currants particularly fine, but a rather small show ; red currents fair. The prizes for currants went ...

... quinces, 2s 4s; pemsgranates, 2s to 4s, medlars, to 4s, ami (•ananas, «d to 4s per dozen ; muljierric-s, Is per basket, blackberries, fid |*r quart; filberts and Kentish cohnuU. lod |ier lb.; hazel do., 4d |>er quart; walnuU, per Vegetables -Savoys. to ...

... pineapples. to 8s; melons, to ; and shaddocks, Is to each ; hothouse grapes, 3s to 8s ; and foreign, 9d to Is per lb. ; blackberries, 3d per pint ; filberts and Kentish cob nuts, to 9d per lb. ; walnuts, 2s 6d to per hundred. Flowers: cut roses, Is ; ...

... common apples and pears, 3s to 5s ; do. plums. 4s 6d; and damsons, 8s to 10s per sieve ; mulberries. Is 6d per basket; and blackberries, 8d per pint. Flowers : Choice plants and exotics in blossom, 5s to 10s 6d; China asters, 3s 6d to 5s per pot; cut roses ...

... JOTTINGS. GATHERING BLACKBERRIES. We heard their voices ere we saw their forms Young, happy voices, jocund the fields, 4 where the road its spine of whiteness warms In the hot August, and the landscape yields Scorched, lerel stretches of unsheltered lund ...

... wild roast-tree, the raspberry bush, with the still lowlier growths of partridce-berries, cran-berries, crow-berries, and black-berries. Almost the whole peninsula, however, is notbi •g but an uninhabite wdderness. The population is concentrated on a few ...

... •'..or le the place to inert with gentlemen of all nine. titttl drone, —Lords and llonoumbles at every luau as tuiele as blackberries r —I TT - sally * feel flattered. Captain Blake. replied the other. with a kind of mock obeisance. I really flattered ...

... is still scenting the hedges. 1 have gathered several wild roses, and yet the overhanging bushes are ! full of nuts, and blackberries are getting ripe. The dis tinction of seasons seems utterly merged in this year's erratic climate. Whilst thoroughly enjoying ...

... reduced the r National Chureh to the dimensions of a mere 'Ill sect. L.'gessons of that kind may be found to as thick as blackberries for any pur- pose on earth, ihow~ever discreditable, a But Do man, it is said, ever wanted ati excuse f for doing what ...