... might bo safely eaten without stint, especially by those who lived on cereal and unstimulating diet. Of wild fruits, the blackberry and hazel nut merited more attention and it was simply amazing that cob nuts and filberts, being a shilling a pound, were ...

... Marriage—Mu. Irving’s Programme. Royalties have been gathering in Florence as thickly, to use an irreverent simile, as blackberries on a hedge. Crowned heads have simply swarmed, in what newspaper writers delight to call the “City of the Flowers.” Queen ...

... back. Carriages ordered as soon as possible. Mabel removed to for instant annihilation. RAN Intl LRRISII4. I've been blackberrying, as the man remarked when be returned from the funeral of an African potentate. beet thief I've heard far a long time ...

... apples—apples of the best quality ; and this fruit might just as well be grown in England. Pears, cherries, raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries, are quite as easily cultivated, provided knowledge and skill are employed, for, take it over an average ...

... though the keen breeze which blew, found the weak spots of pedestrians, and the London Scottish (who were plentiful as blackberries in autumn) realised that their airy costumes were more picturesque than comfortable. Fewer visitors seem to have come to ...

... When planted to be trained against an espalier the plants may be 2ft. apart, and 6ft. between the espaliers. Brambles, or blackberry, may be planted at a similar distance to raspberries, and be trained similarly to espaliers. The Lawton and Wilson Junior ...

... tea. One of them propoeed to take a short cut through a wood with w hich they were well acquainted, having tten go• Mired blackberries in it on a summer after• oil,. The other agreed, and no they arrived as dw. edge of the wood and prepared to enter it ...

... early frost had changed tl. green bracken into gold, and out in the misty meadows, beyond the yellowing shrubberies, the blackberries swarmed upon the prickly labyrinths of bramble. ‘ Thither I hie me, with a basket on my arm, to feast on the wild fruit ...

... sufficient to satisfy the purchasers sure to be attracted by such tempting exteriors. Poets are said to be as plentiful as blackberries, and not at all expensive. Why should not hissers. Bildeeheimer try and find a new Mrs. Ewing to sing us the song of yet ...

... several couples flourished their marriage lines at the ticket clerk, and oer• tificates of baptism were as plentiful as blackberries in September. Perhaps the most amusement was caused by an eccentric character, well known in the neighbourhood of the fish ...

... early tlic little lads ceased to cat the bread of idleness. Tlic smallest of tkem would sent to -gather mud-rooms and •blackberries. They ■were soon fitted cut with a dinner satchel ant a pair of clappers, am! sent to scare the birds the • newly-sown ...

... FOZTtIeoVIIIN MADAIADI—MIL PkOuRADMI. Royalties have been gathering in Florence as thickly, to use an irreverent suede, as blackberries on a hedge. Crowned heads hitt° simply swarmed, in what newapaper writers delight to call the City of the Flowers. Queen ...