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... suggests. No ons will be more surprised than Mr. Gladstone. The grand old man's ideas may be extended in the direction of blackberries. This choice wild fruit makes an excellent jelly. If farmers would gather the berries—instead of letting them rot in the ...

... uDlifting of ideas. You may be able to look over yourself even, and see a glory lying beyond. JELLIES. With currants, grapes, blackberries, and all juicy fruits and berries put no water, but crush a small part of those prepared for use, putting this in the bottom ...

... loosing that an idea is obtaimd of the myriads of men aud women employed in the manufactories which there aie as thick as blackberries. You step into one manufactory, and are allowed a look round. What a busy scene ! What a maze of whirling wheels ! Colossal ...

... land, sea, and mountain ; hedges, garlanded with honeysuckles in flower and fruit, with the viole-b-hued fruit of the sloe blackberries, and myriads of ruddy berries ; ferns' growing larger and more prolific than at any period of the season, surrounded by ...

... The green lanes are crowded with the brit;ht-hued erica, wild thyme, nodding harebells, and fast-ripening hazel nuts and blackberries, mushrooms abounding in the pastures. The ride from Whitchurch, by and over the Severn, to the sea, is full of beautiful ...

... of the woods never looked better; mountain asbes present a brilliant show of scarlet berries ; wild fruit, particularly blackberries, is plentiful, and if rain would only come, mushrooms would yield bounteously. The honey harvest is one of the finest for ...

... ; the ■■M ii variefc y of the. ruddy-berried hedgerows, garlanded with honeysuckles in flower and fruit, and itb. ripe blackberries; the golden fields, brilliant with sen hawkweed ' M buttercups brighten them in the with v J the hedge bottoms and damp ...

... profitable business, paying better than ordinary farming. It has been suggested, also, that farmers might make something out of blackberries, and that the mushroom trade could be extended. The charges on land and railway rates are having attention. Speaking at ...

... crowded city, the solitary roadside station, or the back settlements, he is confronted by pie ! There it is pumpkinpie, blackberry-pie, pie of all kinds, but always of the same grinning, splay-shape, and with a foundation of flabby indigestible crust ...

... huge stones and soil; they are crowded with rich-hued purple erisa, the autumnal golden gorse, wi'd thyme, blue harebells, blackberry bushes, and ferns presenting a gorgeous spectacle of colour. The rocks are also mantled with purple and gold, the heather ...

... stares him in the face, and he—like thousands of others —is greatly to be pitied. Examples such as this are plentiful as blackberries. In the midst of the tropical heat—yesterday week was very hot in the Leeds district—frost swooped down with disastrous ...