... grafted low down, and carefully grown, these soon become very handsome objects. Blackberries. —Some may laugh at the idea of cultivating such common thing as the blackberry ; our American cousins, however, who arc far more wide-a-wake than we are in good ...

... Trclin, occupied Mr. Trerice, he fired shot at a landrail, not only shooting it hut also Mrs. Trerice, who was picking blackberries on the opposite side of the hedge. The shots struck her in the forehead, the wound blooding profusely. She was at once ...

... gathering of blackberries for Liverpool and Manchester markets now provides profitable occupation for the country people in Cheshire, whence enormous quantities are being sent away. A mother and three children will earn 10s. and 12s. weekly by blackberry picking ...

... white grape* ; 2nd tomatoes, black grape*. R. J. I*. Thomas, Ut pears. E. Jennings, Ist blackberries. C. B. Williams, 2nd scailct runners. C. M'UoII, 2nd blackberries. J. Mcdlin, Ut black grapes. E. Barnicoat, 3rd collection of apples, potato onions. C ...

... of corn and pampas grass, with a choice selection of fruit and vegetables at the foot ; centred with a basket containing blackberries. This was the careful handiwork of Mrs. Me Laughlin. The decoration of the font was entrusted to Mim Tucker, who, with ...

... n ) I not remember a year when the hedgerows in the country presented a prettier appearance. The hawthorns, wild roses, blackberries, and all the other berry-bearing trees and bushes are literally laden with their fruit, and promise ample provision for ...

... was to wander over moors and fields and to write his thoughts the first scrap at hand, with ink made from the juice of blackberries. For paper he sometimes had recourse to house slate, roof tile, iron wedges, and even his thumb nails : and in ** My A ...

... raspberry culture particularly needs liberal amount of manure dog into it, and the same may be said in regard American blackberries. Root pinning may still be carried out with good effect on unfruitful apple, pear, and other fruit trees. Cut out the old ...

... how early the little lads ceased to eat the bread of idleness. The smallest of them would be sent to gather mushrooms and blackberries. They were soon fitted out with dinner satchel and a pair of clappers, and sent to scare the birds from the newly-sown ...

... get rid them by cutting off tbe part above the surface. In Sussex, on the Hastings sand formation. Brambles of the common Blackberry spring up ao thickly that see ouoe bad several waggon leads cleared off few acres old neglected pasture. In Suffolk, Ononis ...

... so great a number of half-pay officers had been attracted from India that generals, colonels, and majors were plentiful blackberries. As evidence of the low price of necessaries, lie quoted the current price of mutton at fourpence Imlfpenny per pound. ...

... hairpin before ooald dean optiet for the Bight” It was tha time of nutting, and the toadied with her tip-tilted the dewy blackberry bloaeom. And they aUd, What pretty scene, what grace, what aitnpia love line as,” and then tto queer nut-beetle scratched ...