... now given is not for tha coveted trophy, but for aeries of matches in July and August, when minor prizes are plentiful blackberries. The yachts selected to do battle with the Britisher* are the Katrina, the Shamrock, and the Grade. All three are oracke ...

... Princess, and insisted on being addreesed as ** Your Excellency.” We have a notion at home that Russian Princesses abound like blackberries in the month of September. It appears that Russians hold a So our different opinion ; but that is a detail. aristocratic ...

... he was getting bis value for bis £10 per annum in belonging to a Club where Royalties and Dukes are not so pientifal as blackberries. ...

... monotonous life, but then she was afraid of them -of all, except Hugh Allaire, who helped her with the sick chickens, picked blackberries with her, the dewy August raorniugs, and tohl her how to manage her camellias, pinks, and drooping begonia plants. He had ...

... stooping, small folding hooks, pocket knives, &e.—all of which are nicelj illustrated, see, iii Imcnlion of last week. That blackberry jam is good for sore throat everybody agreed, but never heard until the other day that it gives relief dropsy. II should ...

... In the afternoon an in- fusion of peppermint was sometimes indulged in, and, when the peppermint failed, leaves from the blackberry hh mixed with treacle made an innocent beve: for the ladies of those days. Grace learned ressmaki in Coupar Angus, and it ...

... u pins hsnsnss, and some oranges are sow. Than is no good reason why not have seedless raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries, and also raise by cutting plume, cherries, sad free from stones. Whs* Mr Beerbohm-Trae was about to step on tbs stags ...

... was rough and steep, but we rested here and there, and re- lieved the fatigue of the journey by repeated attacks on the blackberries growing all around in lavish profusion. FROIT TREES WERE PLENTIFUL, and we took advantage of the German custom which permits ...

... went along the cliffs until they had reached the back of the prison gardens, where Groom left his companions to gather blackberries. He had scarcely turned his back when he heard a groan, and on returning found Wise looking over the cliff, and laughing ...

... what is due extreme old is deplorably irreverent. old times when no parish registers wet* kept oentenariana were common blackberries, and the more out of the way their dwelling-plsoe the longer they lived. In Cornwall, for example, we read one 106 years ...

... colour, and font or five average ones make a quart. The seeds have all been eliminated from onr cultivated raspberries, blackberries, currants, and gooseberries. Their fruit is marvellously delicate in flavour, especially the two former. In all the centuries ...

... without his mother’s consent. 1 had no food ness for flies prepared in that way. doubt had often taken them preserved in blackberry jam, or, iu the poorly-lighted eatinghouse, taken them done up in Stewart's syrup ; but fly in the raw was diet from which ...