... richly embroidered with wild thyme, mosses, and a marvellous luxuriance of wild flowers. The creeping willow and flowering blackberry entangle the feet and form dense miniature jungle. Lusty, vigorous life is attested tall thistles in royal purple and clumps ...

... invariably get the last week of September or the first of Ortober. The crops have been garnered, the fruit stored, and the lush blackberries lunging thick Hie brambles. Yesterday, tin- vegetation was as summer left it; to-day, owing night'sfro-t, the bareness ...