... 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 care the size ...

... find myself in a country road, bounded on one side by fields of maize with their irrigating^ streams, and on the other by a blackberry-laden and flower-decked hedge. Farther on, in the distance, to the right, are the neighbouring hills, richly clothed with ...

... remarkable experiences of n,e.\£ 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 as ...

... trees have been killed for miles, and the leaves withered and torn even behind the first row of blighted life and growth. Blackberries are late and small, nor are the nuts good. On the farm threshing continues to take up a good deal of time, for farmers ...

... everything. I am so worried The children Oh yes, the children are all right. I've sent them to hunt up blackberries for a blackberry pudding. Blackberries are over, of course but they don't know that, and it keeps them out of the way. And Mr. Pennefeather ...

... winner of a steeple chase. 4. JACAMAR, bay gelding, aged, by Cardinal York out of Seliy Oalc winner of steeplechases. 5. BLACKBERRY, black mare, aged, by Welling- tonia. 6. HIGHSPRING, 7 years, by St. Leger; winner of jumpingprize Dublin Horse Show, 1SSS; ...

... winner of a steeple chase. 4. JACAMAR, bay gelding, aged, by Cardinal York out of Selly Oak winner of steeplechases. 5. BLACKBERRY, black mare, aged, by Welling- tonia. 6. HIGHS PRING, 7 years, by St. Leger; winner of jumping prize Dublin Horse Show, ...

... Cressida (dam of Priam) and Eleanor, winner of the Derby and Oaks (dam of Muley), while other good names are plentiful as blackberries in his generalogy, and all this for the mere asking. We hope to see Mr. Eyke in his usual place again at Doncaster next ...

... stooping under a bundle of cut furze or a horde of shy little flaxen-polled savages beating the bushes in quest of a few late blackberries but sometimes they went for two or three miles without encountering a soul. More than once, a covey of partridges rose ...

... sing. That was another occupation. Then I used to ride with the boys, or sometimes we would go fishing, or nutting, or blackberrying oh there was plenty to do, and the days were never too long. A better education than most ladies can show, he replied ...

... they are all on the wrong side, like Lady Crewe herself. Have you no cousins among the Whigs? Cousins I had, plenty as blackberries, but all were honest Tories. Stay, there was one but I had never seen her. She was Mary Clavering, who made a great match ...

... tradesman in a first- rate way of business She had only to pick and choose. Humph Honest tradesmen are not as plentiful as blackberries, though, observed Mr. Weatherhead, reflectively. Mrs. Dobbs ignored this parenthesis, and went on: It was a bad day for ...