... MUSHROOMS AND BLACKBERRIES, ‘The Essex County Council yesterday agreed toa resolution in favour of the passing of an Act of Parliament making mushrooms, blackberries, and plant roots, the property of the occupier of the | land upon which they grow, asnd ...

... resolution to petition Parliament for a trenchant Act to facilitate the prosecution of persons who should pick mushrooms, blackberries, and wild flowers without the sanction of the occupier of the soil. It may interest the Essex County Council to know that ...

... Growing blackberries and mushrooms, law, are not private properly. Vou may be prosecuted lor trespass on land where they grow, but not lor theft in taking them ; and as trespass without damage costs no one more than the nominal shilling, blackberrying and ...

... Essex County Council has been turning its attention to mushrooms and blackberries; the outcome of its deliberations being a Resolution in favour of an Act making mushrooms, blackberries, and plant roots the property of the occupier of the land on which ...

... too, has his religion, just the same as other people's. He, too, would like to see love and good-will as plentiful as blackberries. He does not discourage the preaching of the preachers : he only designs to supplement it in practice by the votes of the ...

... accepted. the County Council really serious in including blackberries among forbidden fruit. Younger England may be expected to rise up in arms against being barred from gathering blackberries. AN application by the Walthamstow Local Board for sanction ...

... we not only got plant roots put in, bet also blackberries. The children are no barer to gather blackberries from the beans. The fruit must be wasted and cottage home. sant fr without their blackberry jam. So Westmoreland, abetted by melts to decree ...

... of Parliament making mushrooms, blackberries, and plant roots the property of the occupier. So the half starved agricultural labourer, who, with his wife and children is sometimes able to eke out a meal with a blackberry pie or a dish of fried mushrooms ...

... ingredients together in a jar, and melt slowly; when all are melted beat with a fork until cold. BLACKBERRY WINE.—FiII a large pan or pans with ripe blackberries, and let them stand ian a cool oven for a long time until soft, when they must be pressed to ...

... and it was decided to include blackberries.—Councalor Musgrave thought the Council could be better employed than in such matters. It was extraordinary if children were to be told they were not to pick blackberries.—The motion was opposed by Mr. Courtenay ...

... the other week cn the action of the Essex County Council in proposing to prohibit by land the gathering of mushrooms and blackberri es , a correspondent kindly sends us the following list of the Parliamentary Committee who proposed and the Councillors ...

... vigorous blow at the right tc roam so dear to the heart of many land reformers. They have resolved& that mushrooms, blackberries, and all other wild fruits belong to the farmer, and that an Act should be passed to prevent people trespassing in search ...