... Halbert's countrymen at least know the value of name, and George Washingtons are therefore as plentiful in the land as blackberries. There is much in a name, and this convertibility of Halbert to Albert, by the simple process of dropping the h, and ...

... excambion from Lord Strathmore. LETHAM. Early Fruiting.—On a wall possessed by Mr Andrew Matthew, baker, there is to be seen a blackberry bush, on which there is very abundant crop of large ripe berries, the earliest we ever heard of in this somewhat neglected ...

... dog roses, in the narro m lanes, where the waggons had been hard pushed to pass between luxuriant boundaries of sloe and blackberry, wild rose, and woodbine. This particular July bad begun with almost tropical splendour. The thermometer (there was only ...