... THE BLACKBERRIES. SOME SUPERSTITIONS CONNECTED WITH TBE FRUIT. In most paris of England bramble-picking ends at Michaclmas, for & very quaint reason: On Michselmas Day, so runs the rural belief, Lu-bwqu—numdmwm devil. It is extraordinary to find ihe foul ...

... seore peunds retail ; while wholesale they touched 6d per score, at which price lorry loads were despatched to jam works. Blackberries and elderberries are almost given away, and among apples 40ib of Prussian pippins were bought for 18 6d; and after the ...

... 10 years, eldest daoghter of Mr. Daniel M-Callum, soliei ‘ tor, succumbed to the effects of eating a quantity of unripe blackberries a few daye age. Mr. and Mrs. M‘Callum were absent in England at the time, but were promptly wired for when the child showed ...

... Australian jams are pushed largely in India and elsewhere, and may | compete in England before long. Even now I most of the blackberries used in Epgland come from Ireland, where tmil-gmwing.| properly handled, would do much for ber | commercial prosperity ...

... bird sitting on & wood |pleasure it gave him to be xpressed the great| ing the improvement igher, the traffics cating s red blackberry, enjand baving made presens thas evening,|**s% t, and prices Dusaos o e umoust of & b find baviog made o few remarks o ...