... the culmninating point of St. llelena. Here a few roughly-squared blocks of tufa, now over- grown with wildl-pel)er and blackberry brambles, are all that remain to mark the site of Edmund Ialley's observatory, where 200 years ago he noted the transit ...

... do part of the family's scrambling for money, by picking wild strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and fine luscious blackberries, and standing on the road side, offering the fruit for sale to the tourists in pretty baskets, platters, or boxes of birch-bark ...

... same dog-fox Ulysses is not proved worth a blackberry. Once more the blackberry is not without its folk-lore, and there is a popular superstition that the Devil always puts his cloven foot upon the blackberries on Michaelmas Day, and on this account it ...

... prove this-that Biblical olive grove ; and the mule-path, suggestive of hunts for wild flowers (or blackberries in season, for the ubiquitous blackberry grows here beside the caper and the pepper), and picnics up among the pine groves; and that olive mill ...

... Then for varieties of white bloom, there is the white clover and the large white discs of the cow-parsnip, and the white blackberry blossoms, and the clusters of the elder, and the large, flat, snowy flowers of the wild Guelder rose, which is here called ...

... In her haste she stumbled over roots of trees, she caught her foot in a rabbit-hole, she tore her skirt to ribbons in a blackberry bush-but all was no matter-nothing, nothing was any matter so long as she arrived in time. Already she heard the grunt of ...

... here and there by an atom of white, that shows us where the acrid wild plum will be found in the autumn, when doubtless blackberries will also abound about the low-growing bushes, that in their turn are also newly-dressed in emerald leaves. The soft white ...

... summer they have, in addition, grubs, beetles, and inwects. In autumn they have their share of the grain harvest, of the blackberries, which are then so plentiful in the hedgerows, and of the tender parts of the still-growing clover. In winter they manage ...

... niiscellaneous items a- theology, veterinary surgery, and the higher education of women. colleges of the new style are as ?? as blackberries ; the old style was something different, the buildings were historical, the P)(ns were historical, and-most important of ...

... warm weather at the end of August and first fortnight of September. The drawback of blackberry bushes is their attracting trespassers. It may be added that the blackberry responds to cultivation, and we believe that with a little botanical caie the size ...

... remarkable experiences of new crops. His first idea, derived from a daily paper of unques- tioned sobriety, was to grow blackberries for jam-making. He bought a number of first-class brambles, which were to bear, so the nursery gardeners said, fruit ...

... perhaps in one case out of a million-spoil the illusion. It is the same with your fine-looking men, who are as plentiful as blackberries. You can trust them to he magnificent as Cevur de Lion smiting the Saracen, or Front de Bmeuf running after Rebecca over ...