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... that cannot sin !Come, my child, I said, trying to lead her away. With good-bye to the poor bare, and come and look for blackberries. Good - bye, poor hare! Sylvia obediently repeced, looking over her shoulder at it its we turned away. And then, all ...

GARDENING. WORK FOR THE WEEK. 11Pwwirits.—Taberruemontanas making free growth should be encouraged by gentle ..

... caterpillars, which have alreadyattacked some buslies.Raspberries should have the young canes thinned at once. American blackberries are growing freely, and should have the sturdy young shoots tied in now, and repeated subsequently as the growth lengthens ...

LADIES' COLUMN. Tb enter thoroughly into the spirit of the harvest it Is nes:emery to leave London miles and miles

... ripe blackberries, housekeepers are beginning again to discuss the question, as they de each recurring scalion,whether or not the fruit is worth the trouble of preserving, and the cost of the sugar added to it. Of blackberry jam, and blackberry jelly ...

WORK FOR THE WEEK

... Red and October Yellow planted in an open yet sheltered situation in soil moderately light and well enriched. The Lawton Blackberry is worthy of more extended :•ulture, giving, as it floes, an abundance of fins fruit for tarts or jam in late summer and ...

THE WITNIT GAZETTE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1891

... espalier, or stake, are labelled, and mulched with manure. The entire plantation of Gooseberries, Currants, Raspberries, and Blackberries has fed a thick surface-dsessing of old hotbed manure, the and tying of wall trees and espaliers is.done, wood for grafting ...

I, AI ) I ES' COLUMN

... One great authority on pr•serring asserts that blackberries will not hear to be treated like currants, arid have the juice strained off ter jelly, their flavour being thereby impaired, and that blackberry jam is the proper accompaniment of avast pork. ...

THE WITNEY GAZETTE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER l2, 189:

... not possess. In the set in which he had mixed from early manhood, women more or less like Mrs. Capern were as common as blackberries in September. He invited them, he made much of them, and talked against them, behind their backs. But there was an absence ...

THE WITNXY GAZETTE, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 1895

... opposite us two Ste era of Mercy. We have just Lau • rattling good breakout, are about to finish off with the finest dish of blackberries you ever saw, and I am in the act of saying, Say, old man, I would like to mail these to the youngsters when hoop.la ...

LADIES' COLUMN

... with a pair of scissors. Like all wild fruits, blackberries require to be given sugar liberally if the preserve is to be kept more than a few weeks. Stingy housekie pers have an idea that as the blackberry is common and cheap it is unnecessary to treat ...

MOURNING FOR SADAMITA

... and a lily Vele, worthless fellow was asked why she did so. Her A big-eytel cow with a 'crumpled ' been, A nasty, brambly blackberry-thorn, (Just see how my new white dress Is tarn'.) And eutterdiet e tdoe witk gaudy *Net, And numerous eerier pretty things ...

MR I'M. OF OLD %rwsrAriom

... the h-alth and add to thepleasure of tit tar far wham they provide. among the juicy fruits are atrawben ice, raspberries, blackberries, cherries, and currants; among the non. juicy fruits are apples, peals, p•achee, quince*, apricots, and 1.111110. Mash ...

FRUIT JELLIES

... jelly more difficult to keep, but it is quit* worth the trouble. When red currants are no lcnger available, black currants, blackberries, quinces, plums, apricots, &c., can all be used with equal success. Arrt.x Jett-v.—Take about 30 large appples, and rub ...