... in—unless tho careless housewife, in a moment of inadvertence, writes “ apricot jam * tho pot containing nothing better than “ blackberry jolly.’’ Hence the most violent partisan can review with dispassionate calm tho excellent address horticulture which Mr ...

... tier back hair, and on every p-irt of her dress tliat offered anv inducement there nestled MMee end iim ...

... recovered from tho blow. For tho moment Royalties aro gathered in Florence as thickly, to use an irreverent simile, as blackberries on a hotlgo. Crowned heads are simply swarming, in what newspaper writers delight call the u City of Flowers.” Quean Victoria ...

... tho greater part of the summer volunteer and militia camps in and around the town are, to use a homely phrase, thick r.s blackberries.” residents felt that this was injury to the town: they have consequently petitioned tho authorities, aud from what wo ...

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... was rare and worth buying, and it was after painful experience that learned that rr lines and Elzevirs were as common blackberries, of the majority them it wasonly when they were „ condition that they were worth buying, and that ■ few E'z*virs, such ...

... with flushed cheeks and eyea bright as those of squirrels, dragging branches with the fluffy heed vessels the clematis, blackberry boughs that were still jreen, and fir cones which they had nicked up, and which would soon dry and orittle There had been ...

... broken with hammer, if tradition were to be trusted. Peggy's culinary skill did not equal the warmth of Tier heart. Yet blackberry pie was rare luxury in the gannt old kitchen that the little girl who nee pod from her book with eyes as round ns marbl ...

... weed.; and, | the destruction of many msect hftttpr in noultry yard than elsewhere, ana tan sorts of 6 rnspherrie. ana blackberries flo«™b ttare with little care or outlay. Sometimes, however, it is found necessary to shut the fowls off from these i by ...

... Thursday that three boys had been drowned in an old quarry some miles from Glasgow. They left their homes Glasgow to gather blackberries, and a man passing the quarry mentioned observed one of the bodies floating m pool the foot. The other two bodies were ...

... feet, each time the breeze From the thick leafage of the trees Blows down the clinging beads of rain. Along the tangled blackberry sprays A glint of white is on the buds, A promise of the blooming studs That line ita stems in summer days. What mournful ...

... vivid scarlet fruit to the scene, and adds also a pleasant preserve for roast meats, if people only knew it. Elder and blackberries abound on all sides. The berries of the wild rose, guelder rose, and wild arums, give brilliant bits of colour amidst the ...