... delicate and agreeable fruit. Gooseberries are wholesome, but should be cooked if eaten in any quantity. Raspberries and blackberries are excellent, and should be eaten freely. Strawberries are probably the most heartily welcomed of our small fruits, and ...

... season's bread secure Shall strengthen thankful hearts anew. Iv. Silence now rules by woods and fens ; Hips, haws, and blackberries are ripe; Stray children loiter thneigh the glens And hearken lonely robin pipe. ! poaveful month, full soon we learn To ...

... science are continually advancing, what is to prevent, in the not distant future, centenarians becoming as plentiful as blackberries, and bi-centenarians taking the place of the latter as the occasional nut unt ! It must be very encouraging for ...

... this kind operates upon even the most unfavourable minds. Examples of self-made men in New South Wales are as numerous u blackberries during autumn in a country lane. Of course there will be difficulties at first—there always are in a new country- but the ...

... Hammack, Scary, he. received a call from the Free Church of Drink* wad Skatibesee, Perthshire. Tun death le 4 the Bev. Mr Blackberry Pb Church pastor of Years. Deterred has bees at for three years previous to which he wee at le.. aad of Mall. He bares a ...

... the maidepervant said when she knocked the bottom nut of the paiL Tim easiest way to mark table lines—Leave the baby and a blackberry pie alone at the table for three minutes. yer meets er wise man that looks like er fool, but more often yer meets • fool ...

... cratur, that bores its head into the grisert berries, and eats the vera heart oot o' them. So it is in many gardens ; the blackberries and the gooseberries will be an almost complete failure. But for the ravages of the green fly, red currants would have ...

... M'lntosh, bull-rush for M 'Kay, deer-grass for 3l'Kenzie, St. John's wort for .31'h:tenon, mountain ash for Nl'Lachlan, blackberry heath for M•Lean, red wortle-berries for M'Leod, roae buckberries for M•Nab, seaware for Mr Neil, variegated box for Maophrrson ...

... evidence that the girl. who is small for her age, was sitting on a wall watching her sister and other children gathering blackberries, when the Earl of Galloway came up. entered into conversation with her, and bemired improperly towards her. The defendant ...

... promising of all is the apple, which is bloom abundantly, and is strong and beautiful. The smaller fruits, suck as currants, blackberries, and gooseberries, give promise of heavy returns. Much will depend on the weather of the next three or four weeks. SALMON ...

... although the blossom will be quite enough for a crop, as only a mere fraction of what appears is needed. Raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, and currants, are all very promising, and the prospects are altogether cheering. PITLESSIE. _ _ MrSICAL ...

... reduced by a-half. As regards the show itself, vegetables were very good, and fruit, especially gooseberries, rasps, and blackberries, was far forward oonsidering the lateness of the season. The judges for these were—Mr J. Sherlaw, Kineteary, and Mr D. ...