... might with advantage be tried, at any rate as an experiment, on this side of the Atlantic, Here in England the bramble, or blackberry, is confined-save in a few isolated instances wwhere its development has been attemnptdJ, and not without success-to one ...

... long way off, remind us of the blackberries, and tell us that small hands are already busy among the bushes. It is out of the question that we should do more than contemplate the fruit before us. Even a common blackberry bush is a picture at this time ...

... between the Rhine and the Moselle is, generally speaking, very poor. As a help to the people, blackberry-wine making was started a very few years ago. Blackberries there, as in Ireland, may be had by the ton weight for the gathering. The peasants could sell ...

... poor are eagerly gathering in their harvest of mush- rooms, blackberries, and garden fruits. In Cheshire there is a scarcity of mushrooms this autumn, but there is an abundance of blackberries, and to the willing hand a few shillings can be readily picked ...

... lodgers, and the supply of houses falls far short of the demand. . . . The hill-sides, country lanes, pine woods, bilberry and blackberry thickets, wild flowers, and ferns, are unfailing sources of healthy outdoor recreation and occupation.' So far, so good; ...

... INvOT 7: USHIROOJ1 s? A riv;v days cgo, under the title of Why not blackberries ? we ventured to ?? the advisability of devotirg a certain amount of attention to the culture of blackberries as a valuable feeder to the recently started jam-making factories ...

... the interests of a great public question.-I remain, yours faithfully, REGINALD B. BRETrT. JuelY 3I, 1889, _ _ _ _ _ _ BLACKBERRY JAM FOR IRISH ILLS. To the EDITOR of ?? PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-Your correspondent's letter, headed BIakberry Jam for ...

... September ?? morning, seeing there was no chance of work in Leicester, I walked to Coventry, eating on the load a few blackberries from the hedges. I got to Coventry about seven o'clock, and sold two pairs of socks and a shirt for ninepence, and went ...

... manage it myself. I went on, but could not see the way out, and as I began to get very hungry indeed, I picked a lot of blackberries, and other little things to eat. rhen it began to get dark again, and as I was getting again very tired, I lay down to ...

... present, when the financial situation of Egypt is under consideration, the schemes for mending matters are as plentiful as blackberries in autumn. One of the most notable of these is propounded by M. Paul Leroy Beaulieu in the Econoriste Fran fais, which ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. A NEGLECTED INDUSTRV.` ro the EDtroR of the PALL M kLL G kZErTrE. SIR,-Thousands of tons of blackberries throughout the count y are pcrishing, thousands of children in the country are wanting eniplo\-_ ment, and thousands of poor families ...

... picking leathers off a toad, or clothes off a naked man, and i} you squeeze a crab apple you get only sourness. Sloes and blackberries grow in the:same hedge, and their natures are as they began. Older they grow, they grow either sweeter or sourer. A screw ...