... adjectively, as a bit garden, a bit lassie that bite means a morsel, that bracken is brake-fern, and that English blackberries beconmes brambles. If we skip several letters of the alphabet in the hepe of alighting on some- thing less purely Scottish ...

... haiceig. By H. W. Shrews- bury. (Edinburgh and London: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier.)-Stories of this sort are as common as blackberries in September, and to many people as welcome. Its persone are the good boy who turns out well, the prodigal who repents ...

... best boar, six months old or over, Mr. R. H. Mfetge, Athlium- ney, won first. and second hononra with his Black- thorn and Blackberry respectively; and he was awarded second prize for a breeding sow over six months, Mr. J. Molloy, Dublin. gaining the pre- ...

... caiusd even a momentary surprise, Even more El numerous than the flowers were the berries-scarlet hips le] and lusciotts blackberries, the crimson and orsuge fruit of e the lbrsonyi and millions of eloos with -their delicate puretle bloom. The bedgerows ...

... give way ribbon and velvet bows. Fruit is largely used, cherries being Ifirst favourites, while red and white currants, blackberries Iwith their rich - toned bramble foliage, grapes and nuts look temptingly realistic. Nuts are particularly pretty with ...

... June, roses of numerous shades; July, cornflowers and fancy grasses ; August, poppies and corn ; Sep- tember, hops and blackberries ; October, nuts and autumn foliage; November, chrysanthemums ; and December, holly and Christmas roses. Again, a pair of ...