... is tobe found,either before or after clearing, and the first thing that comes up after the deadening is a thick growth of blackberry briars, which will die out in two years, or sooner if cattle are turned in to keep them down. By that time th native, s ...

... t t h u e ne f grave than a short harvest of grain. The smaller fruits, such as the wild cherry, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, and whortleberry, grow spontaneously and in great profusion in all parts of the State. But abetter idea of both the climate ...

... of timber we have enumerated, Wrest Virginia abounds in stately growths of gyeanicre, chestnut, spruce, beech, hickory, blackberry, locust linden, or basswood, laurel, and white wAnut, some of which attain a size that renders them scarcely recognizable ...