... gooseberry crop, from all accounts that reach us, will not be a very heavy one. Blackberries, it is said, will reach a high price this rear. For yearspast very few blackberry bushes inve been planted, and the crop, being a limited one, the prices are tending ...

... ribbon sash was tied round the waist, matching that which surrounded the crown of the white straw sailor hat. A girl with blackberries garlanding her large fancy straw hat wore a pretty gown of pale yellow striped cripe, set into a yoke of dark green velvet ...

... ripe blackberries, housekeepers are beginning again to discuss the question, as they do each recurring season, 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 ...

... tine bird which has hung a fair time in our cellar, a slice of one of my wife’s famous game pies, a tart of apples and blackberries, and a bottle of good wine “Capital, soswered the stranger. “ Bring them all.” “ The vat** room ahall he prepared for your ...

... overcome him just as the chance of conquest seems greatest. The hedgerows are rich with scarlet hips and haws and purple blackberries, while the other berries beloved of the birds —bryony, elder, holly, woody nightshade, privet, and honeysuckle—form a rich ...

... give pause to the sanguine and enthusiastic individuals who seem to think that suit- able candidates are as plentiful as blackberries, and can be picked up as easily, We think that an important and historical county like Stirling should try to secure vices ...

... prepare Fruit a quantity of avy kind of fresh berry fruit (red currant, black cur- rant, cherry, gooseberry, raspberry, blackberry, Clean the cranberry, &c.; also plums and rhubarb). frait, and pat it intoan enamelled goblet or jelly pan. (Rhubarb should ...

... fruit juices.—Take a quantity of any kind of fresh berry fruit (red currant, black currant, cherry, goose (jerry, raspberry, blackberry, cranberry, Ac.; also, plums and rhubarb). Chau the fruit, and put it into an enamelled goblet or jelly pan. (Rhubarb should ...

... to go farther than the door. A bov at Galitbiela has committed ac “ ra . came down and spoke to them from mile gathering blackberries be got himself stung ou rilo one of bis fingers, and thinking that adder had a man named Off wood oome to the bouse bitten ...

... charmingly. One great aut bear to be treated asserts that blackberries will no: like currants, and have the juice strained off for gh impaired, and that cf jelly, their flavour being th at- blackberry jam is the prope’ accompaniment of roast ay able housekeeper ...

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

... cloth, Brackserey jam is improved greatly by adding half a pound of pecled and cored sour sharp apples to every pound of blackberries. Tugre is an old saying that a woman can throw out with a spoon faster than a man can throw in with a shovel. Without reference ...