... cultivate blackberries, I should be glad to know if the fern-leaf blackberry of the nurseryman produces better fruit on sand than the common, and if there is any drawback to growing the fern-leaf blackberry in places where the common blackberry grows ? ...

... cover the basin over with a cloth and leave the blackberries thus for one and a-half or two -days, stirring them every now and again. On the day the jam is to be made strain the juiee of the blackberries through a hair sieve; then put it into a preserv- ...

... 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 ...

... parsley, garden Daraley, grass and elover, dandelion, sow-thistle, chicory, lettuce, radish tops, bog-weed, groumdsel, blackberry leaves, and cabbage. And for roots,. carrots, parsnips, mangolds, swedes. and turnips. Hedge-parsley is much valued by many ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... of great heights beyond. A bank covered with the scarlet and copper, bronze and purple of briars and the shining jet of blackberries basks in the warn sun. They call it Deadman's Bank, this peaceful, sunshiny place, with a curious suggestion *of horror ...

... murdering Frederick Betteridge, twelve years old, at Awobridge, on August 13. . The boys had been out getting nuts and blackberries, when Better- ridge fell stabbed below the navel. He lingered a month, and dieil. The Coroner's jury found a verdict of ...

... and there were later the curious things that children eat-haws and vetches, sloes and crabs, and delicious blackberries. There is a blackberry that comes early, large and juicy, that is as champagnle to gooseberry wihe when compared with the dry sweet ...

... brush the fur, which will come out clean and fresh. Blackberries are in splendid condition for preserving this year. They make a delicious jelly in conjunction with apples :-Put four pounds of blackberries, and two of cooking apples, peeled and cored, in ...

... complain of the protective colouration of the artful golf-ball, has had many pleasant days to be thankful for. A fine crop of blackberries--stuall but of the best quality-has cheered the more humble wanderer on moor and woodland, In England a dry autumn, though ...