... 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 ...

... germinate in the poorest ground, then as successive growths of this weed decay and vegetable mould accumulates, r spberry and blackberry vines spring up from seeds brought by birds. Then come the birches and mountain cherry trees, sheltered at first by the ...

... Peak, the culminating point of St. Helena. Here a few roughly-squared blocks of tufa, now over grown with wild-pepper and blackberry brambles, are all that remain to mark the site of Edmund Halley's observatory, where 200 years ago he noted the transit ...

... 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 ...

... really droll and original piece of the elaborately farcical kind has been transferred to the Royalty, in association with Blackberries in which latter piece Miss Alice Atherton plays very cleverly. It is unfortunate, though we believe unavc'd ble, that in ...

... of Paris and Œnone gathering it for lunch. Its brother, the blackberry, is successfully cultivated in America. Why not at home? for though Mr. Fish savs 44 Many of the New World blackberries are said to almost equal our raspberries in flavour, we think ...

... column, will be the chief item in the programme. It will be preceded by a new and original musical comedietta, entitled Blackberries. The regular season at the Haymarket having closed, the Vaughan- Conway comedy company will commence at this theatre to-night ...

... chemical extremely, while very careful experiments have failed to show that it has the least ill effect on germination. Blackberries arc very abundant this year, both in England, where they are appreciated, and in Ireland, where they are not. There has ...

... 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 ...

... the month of August may be doubtful, but the comedy is unquestionably successful. The new musical comedietta, entitled Blackberries, at the Comedy Theatre has not won golden opinions from any sort of people, but the new management are at least fortunate ...

... 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 ...

... the shrewd hint of a north-east wind. The haws and the mountain 5 ash berries seem plentiful this year, but there are no blackberries. Even on the sunny landslip of the Isle of Wight they have never g ripened, and in most places they lack even a touch of ...