... brought an open glade with long wooden seat on one side of it, and on this I sat down to rest awhile, and to pluck some blackberries that hung within a few inches of the bench. Some men passed by whilst I was thus employed, and. they carried with them ...

... these 220,000 cases were peaches. 175.500 apricots, 150,000 pears, 60,000 cherries. 40,000 plums, 35,000 grapes, 25.000 blackberries, and 15.000 each strawberries and gooseberries. export of dried and evaporated fruits and vegetables is also enormous. ...

... excellent specimens of preserved fruit—in sugar and crystallised—were the stands, and among the greatest delicacies were whole blackberries and plums preserved in apple syrup. Essays under anonymous signatures were sent in Mr. Daniel Phelps, Tibberton, Messrs ...

... England is tbe wild blackberry of our hedges. The fruit costs nothing at all, and it can gathered persons whose labour has no money value. If a working man sends his children into tbe fields and they bring home a basket of blackberries he gets the fruit ...