... (accompanied by a diagram) in the February ART JOUI.NAL. Price 2s. 6d. GEO. H. MASON. A.R.A.— A brilliant Etching, by Regamy. of Blackberry Gatherers, after the late G. H. Mason, ?? appears in the February ART JOURNAL. Price 2a M. Price One Shilling Monthly, \1 ...

... anybody but a parrot ever lived toa hundred; and now,day by day, we find well-attested centenarians almost as plentiful as blackberries. Against the almost fabulous exploits of Jem Mason's Peter Simple and Miss Mowbray the voice of the sceptic has not been ...

... these restraints. Given a fine at the proper season of the year, di the village lad goes out bird-nesting as as he goes blackberrying in antumn, siding in winter. reprehensible one: if the robbers of nests The habit is, of course, a vi things all their ...

... s«y as much ? An extenuating clause in their nevertheless, be added ; m tsties mast, ® them we are bound to member that blackberries are sweetest when they ave blackest. Then, again, are cheap as well as good. We should be if the appartements were dear ...

... that produced from any other native to a curious superstition in Iceland, ‘‘at Michaelmas the Devil pats his fuet on the blackberries”—a belief vhich, withsome variety, isfound in this Thus, in the North it is affirmed that late in the autuznn the Devil ...

... above the low bushes to which it clung ; there were ferns deeper in the hedge, and yellow bedstraw by the gateways. A few blackberries were ripe, but the clematis seemed to have overcome the brambles, aud spoilt their yield- Nuts, reddened at the tip, were ...

... feels under an obligation to introduce, till one is led to ne that such devoted creatures are as plen- in the world as blackberries, Then the novelist must never tell the whole truth, or, in- deed, much of the truth, about his hero or heroine ; the reader ...

... 2s. 6d. , and peaches, 6s. to lUs. per dozen; choice piuuis and greengages, 2s. per box; mul- berries. Is. per basket: blackberries. sd. per pint; cherry apples, 6d. per quart : cookiug apples, 2s. bd. to ss. 6d. ; and ditto plums, 4s. t . os. ; aud aamsons ...

... turned out a score of j mon cheesecakes. ' Sometimes, towards the md uf mr stay, v. returned from our walks LidcD »ith blackberries ; antl before we left we gathered the damsons, and had them hot, cold, and preserved, and once, as a great treat, in the ...

... to sa. per lb. ; choice plum and green- gages, 2s. per box ; mulberries. Is. per basket : cherry apples, 'Jd. per lb.; blackberries, id. per pint, hlberts aud Kentish cob nuts, Is. 3d. to is. 3d. lier lb. ; cooking apples. 3s. to is. ?? : plums. Is. to ...

... Crichton's Ladyard. by Clydesdale— Tadpole, agst Sir W. AiiHtruther's Almonds and Eaisias. by Glenalniond— Fidelity. Mr Jardines Blackberry, bl Blackthorn— Belle of the Nool:, agst Mr. Brunilrit's Balm, by Hatley-Hazley. Mr. Paterson's Potartite. by Oversman -Wigwam ...

... plums, os. ; aud damsons, la, td. per ban sieve: filberts, ls. 3d. to Is. 9d. per lb. ; walnuts, ls. 6d. to 3s. per 100; blackberries, 4d. per piut ; cherry apples, Sd. per quart; ■Spanish nuts, ll'd. ymr quart. Flowers : Autumnal I. looming plants are ...