... between the Rhine and the Moselle is, generally speaking, very poor. As a help to the people, blackberry-wine making was started a very few years ago. Blackberries there, as in Ireland, may be had by the ton weight for the gathering. The peasants could sell ...

... poor are eagerly gathering in their harvest of mush- rooms, blackberries, and garden fruits. In Cheshire there is a scarcity of mushrooms this autumn, but there is an abundance of blackberries, and to the willing hand a few shillings can be readily picked ...

... warm weather at the end of August and first fortnight of September. The drawback of blackberry bushes is their attracting trespassers. It may be added that the blackberry responds to cultivation, and we believe that with a little botanical caie the size ...

... the interests of a great public question.-I remain, yours faithfully, REGINALD B. BRETrT. JuelY 3I, 1889, _ _ _ _ _ _ BLACKBERRY JAM FOR IRISH ILLS. To the EDITOR of ?? PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-Your correspondent's letter, headed BIakberry Jam for ...

... minute the stranger lets me down again with a t thump. Ah, I thought you was. You was strolling aloDg, and picking at the blackberries, and stopping every now and then jest like my brother, poor chap, a little time before be went off his head. It was this ...

... Directoire coat was of black Cloth faced with steel silk, and the skirt had a tablier of black velvet, btoidered with steel in a blackberry design. The vest of the bodice as embroidered in the same way. The Medici collar and sleeve cuffs were of steel silk, A ...

... in the last named village, a good el e ay he cotunted upon, followed by a ramble in the adjacent woods heng With ripe blackberries. Only a little farther on is Panshanger Park, the hore of Earl Cowper, 'vho courteously allows wheelaili, the entrere. ...

... remarkable experiences of new crops. His first idea, derived from a daily paper of unques- tioned sobriety, was to grow blackberries for jam-making. He bought a number of first-class brambles, which were to bear, so the nursery gardeners said, fruit ...

... chenille. Net and wings is a curious combination, but it's popular. A large lattice straw hat in black was strewn over with blackberry blossoms. Mrs. Maine has several nice hats for mourning wear. This is the part of the milliner's business that is often ...

... perhaps in one case out of a million-spoil the illusion. It is the same with your fine-looking men, who are as plentiful as blackberries. You can trust them to he magnificent as Cevur de Lion smiting the Saracen, or Front de Bmeuf running after Rebecca over ...

... diligently picked and eaten, but in Ireland it is allowed to go to waste, the Irish seeming to have as little idea of eating blackberries as they have of eating eels, There are dog shows all over the kingdom, and the Kennel Club1hs its exhibitions and its successes ...

... perhaps, say oar mierepresentatives-voted millions of the public money as though it grew on the briars and hedgerows like blackberries in a country lane. What is the result? Our action has caused 'alarm all over the conntry, and every European Power is now ...