... tracts of pasture land as would make the cowboys out West mad with envy ; and right under the burning Equator we have fed on blackberries and bilberries, and quenched our thirst with crystal water fresh from the snow beds. We have also been able to add nearly ...

... suddenly, after eating a quantity of blackberries. He vomited violently after eating them, and the medical evidence went to show that death was due to convulsions consequent upon diarrhoea caused by eating the blackberries. The official report on the trial-trip ...

... and the news that the present season is a good one for blackberries have been combined to provide much material for long-winded discourse on blackberry-growing as a new rural industry. Blackberries are excellent things in their way : best of all when plucked ...

... brochi satin with a delicate Empire design worked in silk and framing two pretty Bartolozzi drawings. Miss Tanner’s panel of blackberry-blossoms and meadow-sweet could only be called a needle painting, so soft and full was the shading ; and another panel of ...

... withered leaves, when the harvest wages have been paid and the kirn dance held, when the children arc beginning to look for blackberry and ha/.cl-nut, the bee-keepers will come back lor their hives. Gloomily they will travel home in mist and rain if the season ...

... hours in a rough sea outside the Delaware Capes. A new rural industry is being op ened up in Kent—namely, the cultivation blackberries for profit. Enormous quantities of this fruit are grown on the hedges in the lanes and other parts of that county, and ...

... into long stretches of greensward bounded on either side by untrimmed hedges, where we can go maying in the spring and blackberrying the autumn ; and these “grass roads broaden now and again into the village green on which the geese cackle and the gossips ...

... pasture. Glance at the hedges. The wild fruits are beginning to show themselves: there are hip and haw, sloe, crab apple, and blackberry. This latter is in itself gradation of colour; many hued are the long trailing bramble-sprays, with berries at various stages ...

... there was extremely little to preserve at the end of the season. Yet there was an easy way out of the difficulty ; for blackberries make excellent jam, and the jelly ' made from crab apples is not to be despised even by the epicure So the twins | with ...