... which Mr Bentham, in his British Flora, reduces to only 5. and I myself would still further bring down to 3. The common blackberry is split up by Baliingum into 40 species; Sir Juseph Hooker lumps it into 6, which in my humble opinion is 5 too many. And ...

... all after the bull Password, bred by Sir W. G. Gordon Cumming. They are all off wellknown strains, such as Leer, Prides, Blackberrys, Miss Burgess, and Blanches, and should prove a splendid lot. Major Inkeon, Kinermony, Aberlour, has entered • lot of four ...

... Mrs. Somers made the fried cake?, for tliat }iou*e. had fried cakes summer and winter. Then she made apple pies and Lawton blackberry pies tliat rooming, getting the fruit all from their, own place. Cousin Lisa was making her summer visit there, and she ...

... mv darling, love Isn’t the name for it.” Mrs. wants know “Which is the beat way to mark table linsn?” Leave the baby and blackberry pie alone at the table for three minutes. Schoolmistress: “Why did Abraham after all not kill his son Isaac ?” Tommy (whose ...

... “Bending with three-pronged fork in a garden uprooting potatoes.” What years they were then! Great books clustered like blackberries in every publisher’s list, and I am, of course, taking account of but * few of the most typical. Think of a year like 1850 ...

... HEALTH BILL. The grievances against the Public Health (Scotland) Bill are many and amendments are about as numerous as blackberries in July. Keith is responsible for one and the grievance which our civic dignatories foresee, should the Bill, as it presently ...

... “Bending with tluee-pronged fork in a garden uprooting potatoes.” What years they were then! Great books clustered like blackberries in every publisher’s list, and I am, of course, taking account of but a few of the most typical. Think of a year like 1850 ...

... Canadian Prelate was surrounded a small army of white-robed clergymen, and doctor* of divinity were almost as plentiful as blackberries. Here in the quiet and cool aisles of the Cathedral, the various clerical processions were formed. From nine till eleven ...

... quaff the waters of the aristocratic Strathpeffer has been unprecedentedly large. At the Spa, Keithites are as plentiful as blackberries, and at bowling and biking they are giving a great account of themselves it is stated. Of course it is not in human nature ...

... hands of our citizen soldiers cannot be doubted. In fact this year possibles in the various competitions were common as blackberries, with the result that some of the scores of last year were counted out. It would seem that the accuracy of the Lee-Metford ...

... Burr. Apples- Geo. Oliphniit. iiaa|js, Mrs Barclay. Largest strawberries. James Burr. Strawberries, flavour, Mrs Barclay, blackberries, Robert Anderson, White currants, A. MTiobbie. Yellow goose, berries, Miss Cowie Vecktaulks.— Collection of vegetables ...

... were bigh order. aad cabbages were the strong clusses of the v from The display of fruit w k, who fair aised Amoug the blackberries was ers aod a branch of a buso simp he late with fruis, and bent down under the w: weuld it, [t was exhibition ealy,by ...