... might with advantage be tried, at any rate as an experiment, on this side of the Atlantic, Here in England the bramble, or blackberry, is confined-save in a few isolated instances wwhere its development has been attemnptdJ, and not without success-to one ...

... long way off, remind us of the blackberries, and tell us that small hands are already busy among the bushes. It is out of the question that we should do more than contemplate the fruit before us. Even a common blackberry bush is a picture at this time ...

... 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 ...

... between the Rhine and the Moselle is, generally speaking, very poor. As a help to the people, blackberry-wine making was started a very few years ago. Blackberries there, as in Ireland, may be had by the ton weight for the gathering. The peasants could sell ...

... Francais-Novelty. 31. A Secs'et Agreement, comedy-drama in a pro- logue and four acts, by Edmund Gregory- Novelty. . 31. Blackberries, musical comedy in one act, by Mark Melford (originally produced on June 14th at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, Liverp ...

... poor are eagerly gathering in their harvest of mush- rooms, blackberries, and garden fruits. In Cheshire there is a scarcity of mushrooms this autumn, but there is an abundance of blackberries, and to the willing hand a few shillings can be readily picked ...

... Royal, Middlesbrough. 14. The Jones's Notes, comedy in three acts, by Joseph Tabrar-Theatre Royal, Bourne- mouth. 14. Blackberries, musical comedy in one act, by Mr Mark Melford - Prince of Wales's Theatre. Liverpool. 24. Gen of a Girl, comedietta, by ...

... lodgers, and the supply of houses falls far short of the demand. . . . The hill-sides, country lanes, pine woods, bilberry and blackberry thickets, wild flowers, and ferns, are unfailing sources of healthy outdoor recreation and occupation.' So far, so good; ...

... 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 ...

... INvOT 7: USHIROOJ1 s? A riv;v days cgo, under the title of Why not blackberries ? we ventured to ?? the advisability of devotirg a certain amount of attention to the culture of blackberries as a valuable feeder to the recently started jam-making factories ...

... the interests of a great public question.-I remain, yours faithfully, REGINALD B. BRETrT. JuelY 3I, 1889, _ _ _ _ _ _ BLACKBERRY JAM FOR IRISH ILLS. To the EDITOR of ?? PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-Your correspondent's letter, headed BIakberry Jam for ...

... September ?? morning, seeing there was no chance of work in Leicester, I walked to Coventry, eating on the load a few blackberries from the hedges. I got to Coventry about seven o'clock, and sold two pairs of socks and a shirt for ninepence, and went ...