... average of last jear. Strawberriea and raspberries although of small site —owing to long drought, are good crop. Pears, blackberries, and currants, are a moderate crop. Gooseberries are a miserable crop. Owing 10 hail showers in spring, apple blossom was ...

... Toryism, 1t is literally nowhere. Even’ the “minority member” is a Liberal, and Tories are as rare in the Town Council as blackberries at Christmas, Many years ago one or two desperate attempts were made by the Tories to get their heads above water, so to ...

... inferior in quality, Plums are • medium crop ; guoseberriae are scarcely half the average ; currants are (air ; while blackberries soars. Raspberries and strawberries appear to be the beet, end are on the whole an average crop. The scarcity of fruit ...

... practice. Compared to the sterility of nineteen years ago, good shots are now scattered over the country as plentifully as blackberries in June. The honour, therefore, which Mr Peter Rae succeeded in trapping on Tuesday last, is of sort which is yearly growing ...

... the trees. gooseberry and currant bashes are very much blasted, and the crop, especially of the former, is very deficient Blackberries awl rasps are a pretty fair cop : while strawberries, the whole, are making a good A In this district we have few large ...

... very many. Let it net be supposed we unches, The best time fer catching bulltine! jare arguing vaccination as a is in the blackberry time—vi.., Sep vember and agency, or inst the y of compulsory Birdliming is a more mode' at if we are te have it, in the ...

... is—yes, I declare—why, it is dear little Paolo him Peg. Good gracious ! be has strayed away down here alone to look for blackberries, no doubt ; and as she spoke she rushed forward, and seizing the child by the skirt drew it back from the perilous over ...

... the best pot plant, miscellaneous variety. Mr Brander. Oldmill, took the prise for strawberries, and Donald Moiison foe blackberries, which were the largest w# havs ever seen. Club's Challenge Cup for do. do. Tbe Duke of Richmond and Gordon. Special prize ...

... some to eat with his blackberries. She refused. He appeared resigned, but added gravely, ‘° Yon know, mamma, what happened round the corner? There was a little boy, and his mother would not give him any. sugar on his blackberries, and——¢‘ And ?7’— *“ ...

... lieldog and imperfect words had told us too plainly that it was while stretching over the edge of the precipice to mither blackberries for that his mother had lent her footing Anil fallen headlong down. My wife would apend house by the bekide. I ventured ...