... failure, some of the fruits not being at all representee was partly due to the forwardness of the season -the best of the blackberries, strawberries, &c, having been pl nc ked some time before—and partly because the members knowing that the fruit was far ...

... Markinch. Ripe Blackberries.—Pomona's favours, the pleasing forms ripe strawberries and cherries, have been abundantly and early enjoyed and around Markinch this season usual, and William Ford, Auchrsuty Paper Mills, has just handed a sample of perfectly ...

... of the season. We are daily expectation of having a king or two on our visiting list; princes and dukes are as plenty as blackberries, and as for Counts, well, we don't reckon them at all. Nothing short of Dey or a Bey or Shah will create a sensation now ...

... with tall waving grasses, which presently, as the lane defended towards the village, gave place to an overgrown hedgerow of blackberry and honeysuckle. Great fronds of fern, spikes of golden rod, and a few short stems of late fox-glove, grew by the wayside ...