... ST. JAMES’S GAZETTE. BLACKBERRY CULTURE. Mr. Walter Ellis, of Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware, writes to us as follows :—Your Note on blackberry culture, in the 5/. James's Gazette of the 23rd of January, induces me to send you a short account of the ...

... successful small-fruit growers in the States, makes, it is stated, the growth and sale of blackberries lucrative occupation. He has several acres of blackberries; the average yield per acre being 125 bushels. The entire cost of production, reckoning interest ...

... Except as affording a means of enjoyment to children who collect it from hedges and thickets, the blackberry is not much valued in this country. Yet blackberry wine was once held in high estimation, and for jams and jellies it is still extensively used. Persons ...

... Some of the most successful snake killers are women and y° u 2 girls who make a business of gathering huckleberries and blackberries. An imooriant part of berry-picker’s equipment is stout stick, with which the snakes are killed. The country is hilly and ...

... as I recollect, was as follows: Boiled and Fried Herring, Roast Beef. Melted Butter. Vegetables. Plum Pudding. Apple Pic. Blackberry Pie. fJanuary 26, fBBB. Mosquitoes and beetles notwithstanding, the prairie has its charms. I often think that in the fall ...

... programme at the Strand will be furnished by His Wives,” which now goes much more briskly than it did at first, together with Blackberries,” a musical farce, wherein Miss Atherton will introduce some new dances and songs. At the Savoy, The Pirates will make ...

... formal high farming yet unblushingly avows itself, one finds some hedges tall, thick, and deep-ditched, rich with sloe and blackberry, bryony, honeysuckle, and privet, with ash, oak, elder, and hazel all pleasingly intermixed in picturesque confusion. The ...