... illustration of A Rose among Thorns (31) is a pretty little country girl who, suddenly arrested in her glad pursuit of blackberrying, stands amid a tangle of thorny briars 3ucking the back of her scratched hand with a childish air of 't'ttii ._ tui equally ...

... short of last j ear's by a couple, there was only one absentee of the two dozen acceptances. Pots were plen- tiful as blackberries, chief support being awarded to Our John, Ulster Queen, Nectar, and Agneta, the last of whom, curiously enough, won by ...