... 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. ...

... autobiography in detail, from the cut et their pinafore, to the items of their menus, from their early recollections of blackberries to their present affection for whitebait or oysters. In these later years of the nineteenth century everybody writes; ...

... 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 ...

... all the people giving themselves up to celebrate the happy event in some form or ang,ther. Flags were as plentiful as blackberries. No house, hardly without exception, was without one, ranging from the simplest bannerette to the most elaborate decoration ...