... romances to delight them and pass away the happy hours ? This is the blackberry season. Among the rich and russet autumnal tints stands out prominently the foliage of the blackberry so often used by gardeners in table decoration, but the delight of the ...

... trade might be driven in these wild berries, bringing in money anO pleasure to village folk, for ev ry child loves blackberry jam, and blackberry pudding is food lor the gods when eaten with thick yellow cream. Here is a clear case of wastefulness. Butter ...

... the growers, whq have no har~estingy expenses, or storage-room rent, or any indefinite period to wait for their money. BLACKBERRIES This wild fruit is so plentiful this year by hedgerow and copse and on moor and common, that correspondents are asking ...

... has not the gift of getting confidences out of other people, nor are interesting specimens such as this one as common as blackberries in September. But the book is so shrewd and alive, it gives so admirably the outlook of the Hooligan, and shows you how ...

... elk and killed him ; here I enjoyed glorious salmon-trout fishing, and thoroughly patronised the famous muilterberries, blackberries, and wild strawberries, but these were all over, and evening chills he- raided the coming winter. I was talking to Ole-the ...

... number ot eminent lawyers who have been distinguished in literature is not great. Bacons have not been exactly as common as blackberries, and the list of Chancellors, Chief Justices, or learned jurists in general, who have made their mark in letters, does ...

... prove to have been at all invariably attended by injury to the fruit. The crop is reckoned half an average. Iledgenuits, blackberries, and mushrooms are plentiflith Vt of England this season, and the great abundance of ordinaryh nu'tsi remarked from other ...

... induced our party-managers in latter days to sub- stitute the lady for the male canvasser. Though reasons be as plentiful as blackberries, the average elector will vote for no one on compulsion. The more a fellow-man attempts to teach him the more resentful ...

... their bill of fare then is an agree- able contrast to the luxuries of the coops and the feeding-whistle. The pheasant likes blackberries, sloes, haws, seeds of various kinds, tender leaves, and insects. How the old-fashioned hedgerow offers all these I And ...

... Porthlo nestles on the hillside. Then, leaving Carn Marvel and Sandy Bar, with the slopes between alive with fern and juicy blackberries, we cross the Roads, our pilot assuring the nervous that the terrible Dammy Sin- ncrs ledge is well to windward. Away ...

... dinner table are luxuries our forefathers knew nothing of. Dinner- table decoration was restricted to holly and ivy and blackberry sprays, or the sparse products of the con- servatory grudgingly contributed by the gardener, and looked upon by him as pure ...

... years ago alleged it to be, its works do not multiply fast enough to main- tain their relative proportion to the whole. The blackberry is common enough in a sense, but as the hedge grows high and thick the berries get further and further outstripped by the ...