... for ten harvest hands, did a two weeks' washing and the milking, made a calico dress, practised her music lesson, went blackberrying, gathered gallon, walked to town in the evening to attend a concert, and walked home again before bedtime. In one of the ...

... known b» 1,800 names ; 2,200 of pears, 160 of plums, 300 of our native-grapes, 60 of currants, 80 of raspberries, and 30 of blackberries. The aggregate value of the tobacco crop in the Con nectlcut valley Is about 4,000,000 dols. The large packinghouses in ...

... fewness of parts, we have no. seen its eqnal. The Season. —According to the oracles, on account of the plentifulnesg of blackberries, haws, and tbat sort of thing, we are likely to have a hard winter. The cold commenced pretty early at any rate, and as ...

... tomatoes, mushrooms, egg-plant, and scores of other vegetables are cultivated and thrive well. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, whortleberries, currants, and other berries flourish. There is scarcely a day the when strawberries cannot ...