... and better reason than given. Fine coal may produce poor coke, and vice versa. Slates were, eorao time ago, thicker than blackberries on the Links, and if the coals from which they came were changed, no doubt better returns for coke would be tho result ...

... any defeat on a Seats bill issue at such a critical moment, while other guesses, almost as plenti- ful as the preverbial blackberries, were sug- gested. It is rumoured that the real reason of this singular revolt is to be found in the disagreemént of Lord ...

... and colour, and a case of roses from the gardens of Udny House was really splendid. In the specimens of fruit shown, the blackberries and straw- berries were certainly the best, being exceedingly large and well flavoured. Several of the cut flower specimens ...

... nted. thei re were a good number of entries in the bouquet section, the wild flower bor aq! uets were the best arranged. Blackberries were the most meritorious in the fruit section, while the turnips and beets held the same position in the classes, Tho ...

... of the different flowers. In the section for fruit the entries were also numerous, the most striking exhibits being the blackberries and There was also a fine collection of vegetables, potatoes ef all varieties being shown. A class of exhibits in regard ...

... competition for bouquets there were numerous entries. The fruit department was the strongest of the show, the strawberries, blackberries, rasps, and red currants being all well represented by large, well-flavoured exhibits, Some good apples an cherries were ...

... but the plant that seemed to awaken for the time much interest with us any other was the Rubus Schomburykii, or Horaima blackberry, which greatly resembles the English brarnblo ; gathered several bunches of the fruit, which possibly does get sweet, but ...

... 13 ewts. and 26 lbs., to his oppunent’s 12 ewt. 1 qr. and 10 lbs, This is an ox b by exhibitor, after Gordon (1707) dam Blackberry, uncommonly grand in his back and straight asa line, but he would take making up in his underline, Mr Stepbenson’s Lambkin ...

... for the expectations ef mortal man! Rejected candidates are, if not ‘‘as thick as leaves in Vailombrosa,” as plentiful as blackberries. Still, painfully not the men who are out so much who snarl, as they bear up with a good heart, most of them. It is the ...

... Crops,” ‘Greenhouse Heating by Gas,” are deserving of attention. A short pa) ron “The Blackberry ; its Oulture and Uses,” will attract notice, It tells how the blackberry, or bramble, is cultivated in America, where it produces enormous The crops that are ...