... of Spring, which gives to it its name, is not a March bird, but an April messenger. Newspapers are now as plentiful as blackberries, and many of them are birds of passage and ill omen, and are incapable of a return flight after their departure. The birds ...

... do part of the family's scrambling for money, by picking wild strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and fine luscious blackberries, and standing on the road side, offering the fruit for sale to the tourists in pretty baskets, platters, or boxes of birch-bark ...

... mat. It was a Sne, wane, sunny afternoon, sad must have autumn, for as I on towards I met some rough who were trying to blackberries. Some years afterwards I went to liornseywood House, in the grounds of which were some n d id trees, what teemed to me ...

... 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 ...

... November he sent three casks of blackberries by Parsons and Co. to be delivered to the London and North-Western Railway Company at Watford for Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, Soho-square. He claimed £7 los., value of the blackberries; £3 for journeys to London ...

... little of it goes a long way.—Funny Folks. USEFUL RECRIPT.-A lady wishes to know the best way of marking table-linen. Blackberry-pie is our choice, although a baby with a gravy-dish is highly esteemed by many. BILLING AND COOING.— Perhaps we had ...

... Newmarket. Concerning those, rumour, it must confessed, was hardly busy, and “tips” were scarcely plentiful tho proverbial blackberry, nor w*ero they forced upon visitor’s notice to tho. same troublesome extent experienced by racegoers tho season grows older ...

... was the nearest point they could get for their “grud study.'” But life has stern necessities before which even ferns and blackberry bushes must, if necessary, be sacrificed. Mr. Brett is an enthusiast inspired with an ardent love for his art ; and, introduced ...

... Mr. D. Smith was interlocutor, and the dialogues, quips and cranks, puns, ¢ goaks,” and riddles, were a 3 * plentiful as blackberries,’ as the saying goes, the corner men being uncommonly smart and crisp in their business. Amongst the best things in the ...

... ‘* She i . be spared .r—s n tous!” Thazk Two Imisumex were passing some blackberry bushes. “ What's these, Klikc ? inquired Pat of of his companion.—* Nothing but blackberries,” eaid the latter.—* But they're red, Mike.”’—¢¢ Well, Pat, Dblackberries ...

... the fruit crop is not encouraging; except small fruits, such as the snow eovered, and apples, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, etc.; but peaches and sweet cherries are all killed. Peach buds are reported killed in Michigan, Illinois, and lowa, and ...

... and slips. March—sow corn and oats, transplant tomatoes, egg-plants, melons, beans and vines of all kinds; mulberries and blackberries are then ripening. April—Plant as in March, except Irish potatoes, which are then well nigh ready for digging. 'May—Continue ...