... 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 ...

... avoid any defe.at a Seats Bill issue at such a critical moment, while other guesses, almost as plentiful as the proverbial blackberries, were suggested. It Is rumoured that the real reason of this singular revolt is to be found in the disagreement of Lord ...

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

... Although there were a good number of entries in the bouquet section, the wild flower bouquets were the best arranged. Blackberries were the roost meritorious tho fruit section, while tho turnips and beet* held the same position in the vegetable classes ...

... of the different flowers. In the section for fruit the entries were also numcrons, the most striking exhibits being tho blackberries and gooseberries. There was also fine collection of vegetables, potatoes #f all varieties being shown. A class of exhibits ...

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

... surely. should feel inclined to say with Pope, “ Men may be read well books, too much.” Cany Ilodaon, with her eyes like blackberries wet with rain,” are rather enamoured. Speaking of the Boston young man of culture, she says, I’d formulate him if he came ...

... weighs 15 cwts. and 26 lbs., to his opponent's 12 cwt. 1 qr. and 10 lbs. Thia ox bred by exhibitor, after Gordon (1707) dam Blackberry, uncommonly grand in his back and straight as a line, but he would take making up in his underline. Mr Stephenson's Lambkin ...

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

... Crops,” ** Greenhouse Heating by Ga.,” are deserving of attention. A short paper on The Blackberry; ite Culture and Uses,” will attract notice. tell, how the blackberry, or bramble, cultivated in America, where it produces euormou* crop, that are sai l to ...