... Almost all green vegetables are cheap, A. including spinach, which is only 2d., and cauli- n flowers. Plums, damsons.. black-berries, stewvin- ;y pears, and apples are the inexpensive fruits fo-r J_. cooking, whie dessert fruits include green figs, ie ...

... splen- dlid condition. Mushrooms are also cheap. Beg-lish hothouse grapes are balf-a-crown a pound. Prutnes, danisous, aind blackberries arc zthe available small fruit. Good pines can be ,bad at 3s. apiece. French wealnuts are. 8d. a ij pound, cbobuts Gd. ...

... of-tbe-way places gather. ing blackberries, without let or hindrance, just as they pleased. They did no ha.rm. They wandered in the woods 'and gathered nuts, and no one had a word to say against them. Now. however, blackberries and nuts have both assumed ...

... quantity of wholesome vegetable diet. Hedge Parsley, Dandelion, Sow Thistle, Ground-el, Nut Leaves, Sorrel, Wild Tares, Blackberry Shoots, and many others, are available. In the winter the countryman is, of course, more limited in his choice, while the ...

... some Druryf j lauer. RIPE BLACKBERRIES IN FEBRUARY. To show how wonderfully mild the weather has been, even on the north coast 0t Cornwall, Mr. A. E. Vigurs, of Newlyn East, near Newquay, sends the Standard a ripe blackberry, which was picked in a lane ...

... to Cadiz, but to Vigo. And from the time when he gets out of the Maas on La Mouche Noire, his adventures are as thick as blackberries, and as welcome to all who have not lost their sweet tooth for perils and fights. There is a chase by a French frigate ...

... Paris many of the new models have fruit as trimmingsa. Prettiest of tliese ni-a rod or white currants, raspberries, andi blackberries. Feather honse and dog collars of pearls are indispensable to the wardrobe of dile very smart woman just now. Both fashions ...

... pale flower has served a party pur- pose end is now a market-able commodity. Will he go to thle extetut of grabbing the blackberries on the hedgerows and the bil- berriee on the heatlher? Such meanness is irritating and pitiful. But of such is the kingdom ...

... not yet battened down under a concrete esplanade. Turf, from which every tinge of green had dried, patched with gorse and blackberry bushes and bare grey spots of shingle and sand, made a wide band of uneven ground, which followed the line of the sea, inland ...

... instances of families where one or even two members seem to have got in by mistake, and to belong elsewhere, are as common as blackberries. It is my misfortune (it certainly cannot be considered my fault) to be an example of this latter irregularity. Of a family ...

... outside sources. Blackberries are fruits which should be found on most markets, and in most retail fruit shops. By this we dlo not mean wild blackberries which are sent up as unsorted as they comie from the hedgerows, but cultivated blackberries, growi as ordinary ...

... our contemporary wkrith a subject for a leading article at a time when such subjects are not precisely as plentiful as blackberries. The healing waters of Coritrekxville, corrected by an infusion of the tonic bark of Shoe-lane, ought to prove a highly ...