... THE IRISH AND BLACKBERRIES. Why the Irish starve wheti they might make their fortunes by gathering blackberries? Such ih effect is the question which Mr Ellis Lever asks in the Morning Post. Hundreds thousands toils of the finest blackberries in the world ...

... Port Wins kbom Blackberries,—North Carolina dried blackberries to the, Loudon market. The blackberries, after being picked in the autumn and dried ovens on wicker frames, are sold contractors, who ahio them immediately for Europe. The fruit is gathered ...

... SELECTED POETRY, PICKING BLACKBERRIES ON THE HILL. Picking blackberries on the hill, Boy and girl together— That was thirty years ago, Just such autumn weather. Jane was seven, I eleven— ; Happy children ever. Oh, that hillside ! Pretty spot Where we ...

... THE CHILDREN’S HARVEST. This year appears to be an excellent one for blackberries, and the country is just now overrun, or rather overcrept, with happy little parties of children, marauding among the brambles, with pannikin aud basket in which carry their ...

... peculiar astringent acid flavour makes them very acceptable for sore throats or hoarseness of the voice. I found one old recipe blackberry jam, in which a glass of brandy Wadded to it after the first boiling up ; cannot see how the addition can improvement. London ...

... salmon weighing thirty-eight pounds, one of the largest fish ever Killed in that reach of the Tay. While fish are plentiful blackberries in the lower pools of the Tay, those In the upper waters are very sparse this season. ...

... Observer writes that he comes within thousand miles the truth. “Beggars,” says our New York contemporary, are plentiful as blackberries, and the practice of giving fees to waiters has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. * ...

... fine, ripe blackberries we saw 111 the hedges, and only consented to pass the assurance that there were to be stewed blackberries and rich cream at dinner that evening. Then came discussion as to whether apples should be added to blackberries when cooked ...

... reminds one of a story of the American Civil War. After the struggle was over majors, colonols, and captains were as thick as blackberries. Many of these heroes were in the habit of fighting their battles over again at hotel bars. On one of these occasions a ...

... fruitful plains, photographed, as it were, on my memory. BLACKBERRY JAM. My only substantial souvenirs are some jars of veritable blackberry jam and bottle of famous cider. By the way, blackberries are only good when cooked to any one past the age of twelve ...

... comfortably her declining years. During nearly the whole her long life she partook of no other medicine than sulphur and blackberry leaves, to which she attributed her perfect state of health and lougevity. She possessed an extraordinary memory, whieh ...

... : damson, 500 tons ; blackberry, 100 tons, and they can bought retail from any ready-money grooif the following prices Gooseberry, 5d to s£d per lb.; raspberry, 6d to 6£d ; strawberry, fid to fi£d ; black currant, 5Jd; blackberry, s£d; plum, 4d. Mr Gladstone ...