... ing, but very poor things if, unsustaitted by strength, they are left to creep along the ground. . „ , Life is field of blackberry bushes. Mean people squat down and pick the fruit, no matter how they black their fingers ; while genius, proud and per ...

... man!’’ Th® stranger started. . * 1 beg your be. “Am trespasslD said Polly, «it isn’t that any one ia welcome the wild blackberries. But—you seem almost famished,’’ frankly admitted the young man. I breakfasted six, and have bad since.” . _ „ . , *lt’fl ...

... Tins. Is. lid. each. ’ Two gentlemen passing a blackberry bush when the fruit was unripe, one said it was ridiculous to oaU them 6/aeXberries, when they were red. Don’t you know,” said bis that blackberries are always rtd when they are (/run. ,,fß, J ...

... function of fashion goes without saying. All the available Royalties were there; duchesses and countesses were plentiful as blackberries, but it was noticed that there were some members of the aristocracy conspicuous their absence. The gardens behind Devonshire ...

... shore to be kept in remembrance of this happy outing. A lady in the neighbourhood has promised sugar to preserve all the blackberries the children can procure this season. Will our young Newton friends remember this, when they go gathering for themselves ...

... now getting dene in moat districta; but any acid fruit will suffice, and I have no doubt that also that wbinberriea or blackberries would answer. You boil up slightly as much fruit as will fill a pie-dish when done, adding sugar sufficient, of course ...

... in silk of quakerish stone, pinked into fluffiness and brightened with gleams of orange, looks both charming and useful. Blackberries (remarks Madge” of Truth) are just in now. They make capital tarts if mixed with apples or cranberries. A well-boiled pudding ...

... (that blue green shade the blooms acquire when grown in certain soils); rhododendron, dahlia, petunia, clover, mulberry, and blackberry being the best worn reds and purples, while the newest shades of grey are quite charming. The chief novelties cloths have ...

... and bade breadths of corduroy, the Sides being of cloth, set iu close folds. Another gown in this material is of unripe blackberry colour, and deep purple blacfe velvet—tbo shade the fruit when fit to pick. The bodice is corselet form, having the appearance ...

... spent the young people of the adjacent village and vicinity in pleasure parties to the woods, and numerous excursions to the blackberry thicket which gave the name of Briarfield to Uncle Bedford’s neighbourhood. Flossie Denton was ever the leading spirit, ...

... two down in the meadow yonder, sitting hand in hand, the monkey tied to the branch of a tree by a long cord, and eating blackberries. And you don’t suppose I went and told Mrs. Lee, do you? it went on for five years. The money in Mr. Graham’s lionds was ...

... Nature. She is very well appropriate positions; but Nature is not good fruit-grower. If it was worth while even acorns and blackberries would be improved by cultivation. The leaves will soon be falling from wall and other trees, and any rearrangement or opening ...