... BLACKBERRY CULTURE. Our fruit growers may gather a profitable hint from the following paragraph which we cull from a London contemporary : — A new rural industry is being opened up in Kent —namely, the cultivation of blackberries for profit. Enormous ...

... GARDEN BLACKBERRIES. There yet remains another class of Rasp- berries, or i Blackberries, to be noticed. These, though known in England as Rasp- berries, obviously partake more of the charac- ter of Blackberries or Brambles. The oldest and best known ...

... creamy elder mellowed into wine, The russet hip that was the pink-white rose ; The amber woodbine into rubies turned, The blackberry that was the bramble born ; Nor let the seeded clematis be spurned. Nor pearls, that now are corals, of the thorn. Look ...

... week's work done, his wages in his pocket, and glad that to-morrow is the Sabbath. He gives a charming picture of picking blackberries and drinking from the icy cold streams on the high ground near the Equator. Mr. Stanley and Emm Pasha reached Bagamyo yesterday ...

... WOMEN WORKERS IN AMERICA The women in America are invading every sphere of employment. Female doctors are as plentiful as blackberries, and women are admitted to the Bar ia some of the States. Mrs. Ada M. Ritten- bender, a lady banister, has just been nominated ...

... A PERILOUS POSITION AND A PLUCKY RESCUE. Last Saturday afternoon, a little boy named Hughes, while picking blackberries on the cliffs between Fermain Bay and Doyle's Monument, in treading upon a treacherous spot, overgrown with brambles, lost his footing ...

... various kinds, and vegetables generally. In one window was an erect latin cross of evergreen. The pillars had sprays of blackberries, oats, tomatoes and green leaves. Each side of the organ was a bracket with produce. The decorations were profuse, and ...

... grapes and fiowers. The windows were adorned with sheaves of oats, barley, anil wheat, bread, butter, Jam, eggs, plums, blackberries, tomatoes, apples, grapes, moss, etc., etc. Ivy was hung on the chandeliers and the baptistery screen. The font ?? decked ...

... cray-fish, and crabs, in a very artistic manner. Eggs, butter, bread, curds, peas, cucumbers, vegetable marrow, figs, blackberries, potatoes and other roots, sunflowers, etc., etc., were largely drawn upon for tho decoration of minor places. The font ...

... ground. The communion-table was covered with apples, pears, and bread. Inside the rails were pots of flowers, vases of blackberries, grapes and eggs, with mushrooms and pumpkins. In the extreme corner were sheaves of corn with sickles, bags of corn, and ...

... 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 ...

... view at least) come the blackberry and raspberry ; where the individual fruitlets grow soft, sweet, and pulpy, instead of remaining dry as in the strawberry. And this change clearly marks a stap in advance; so that blackberries and raspberri.-s are enabled ...