... think they might profit by more careful and systematic dealing with the blackberry, which has developed favourably under the influence of a satisfactory season. Eaten alone, blackberries are somewhat unpalatable, though when mixed with apples they are made ...

... Throughout the Vale, two farmers out of every three bad bean served with writs for tithe, and the bailiffs were as plentiful as blackberries (roars of laughter). The promoters of the anti-tithe movement could not but r.gret that the bath& received rough usage ...

... cob nuts, is. ; DOW filberts, Bd. per lb ; w alnuts, la dd. to 2s. 6d. par 100 ; plums and damsons, 4d. and Sd. per lb; blackberries 3d. per pint ; basal nuts, 3d. per plat; cabbages, 14. to 2d. ; red, 4d. to Sd. ; e f s , 3d. to ed. j marrows, 3d. to ...

... applm, Id. to 21. per lb. ; selected plums, 6d. per basket ; common ditto, Id. and 2.1. per lb. ; damsons, 2d. to 6d. ; blackberries, 3 I. poi quart ; grapes, English, 3s. to 4s. ; foreign, &l. to Is. 64. per lb. ; melons, 6d. ; pine apples, Is. 61. to ...

... photographed, as it were, on my memory. My only substantial souvenirs are some jars of veritable blackberry jam and a bottle of famous cider. By the way blackberries are only good when cooked, at least I think not. to anyone past the age of twelve years. Cooking ...

... marry. Two Irishmen were passing some blackberry bushes. What's these, Mike'r inquired Pat of of his companion. — Nothing but blackberries, said the latter. — But they're red, Mike. — Weil, Pat, blackberries are always red when they're green. A ...

... with us. ▪ To. smather, I have an. piste, sometimes two gisess o bok I want a whole sad when I get a amm I to have a whole blackberry pie. O WM. Joimay, you mot wait to be a moo for that may have one now. 4 What. ! A sae to soysW l Yes, go pick the bmdm ...

... her niece, who is taking tea with her)— Take some of these stewed blackberries, my dear. Blackberries are good for the complex- ion. Niece — But, dear aunty, I don't want a blackberry complexion. Good-night to-morrow— An Irish gentleman, who had been ...

... agriculturists is, to go iv for cultivating mushrooms ! and blackberries. What a prospect for country .children? Fancy every mushroom- meadow tabooed to early rural ramblers, and all the blackberries strictly l preserved, in the sense of partridges, not ...

... September morning, when the still green fields were all glittering with dew, and bright webs of silver gossamer sparkled on the blackberry bushes, an acorn and a mushroom found themselves aide by side. The mushroom was tall and fresh-looking, and thought a deal ...

... son, 500 tons; blackberry, 100 tons; ai d they can be bought retail from any ready-morey grocer at the following prices :— Gooseberry, SJ. to s£d. per lb ; raspberry, 6d. t » 6_d.; strawberry 6d. to 6Jd.; black currant. s£d; blackberry, 5Jd; plum, 4d ...

... Radish cob note. Is.; now Elbert% Id. par lb; walnuts, la ild. to 24. Bd. pie 100; plums sad damsons, 4d. sod 84. per ; blackberries, id. - pint ; haslnuta, r-- pint; ld. ► . _ swers cabbages. .to ; rod, 44. to 64. • eas ps r S e . N. be Sd. ; narrows ...