... Then for varieties of white bloom, there is the white clover and the large white discs of the cow-parsnip, and the white blackberry blossoms, and the clusters of the elder, and the large, flat, snowy flowers of the wild Guelder rose, which is here called ...

... declines to explain till he hears that ,.II his brother nurserymen have made their fortunes. We are glad he has a good word for blackberry jam; with cream he pronounces it quite an exotic dish -the ne plu hs ultra, we suppose, of praise from a nurseryman. ...

... mother-sheep, the feeding of the cattle, and the clover meadows. We are taken into the lane and examine the hedges, the blackberries, and the cottage, and we hear the song of the thrush ; into the woods in tender spring, in green summer, and golden autumn ...

... prove this-that Biblical olive grove ; and the mule-path, suggestive of hunts for wild flowers (or blackberries in season, for the ubiquitous blackberry grows here beside the caper and the pepper), and picnics up among the pine groves; and that olive mill ...