... some Druryf j lauer. RIPE BLACKBERRIES IN FEBRUARY. To show how wonderfully mild the weather has been, even on the north coast 0t Cornwall, Mr. A. E. Vigurs, of Newlyn East, near Newquay, sends the Standard a ripe blackberry, which was picked in a lane ...

... to Cadiz, but to Vigo. And from the time when he gets out of the Maas on La Mouche Noire, his adventures are as thick as blackberries, and as welcome to all who have not lost their sweet tooth for perils and fights. There is a chase by a French frigate ...

... Paris many of the new models have fruit as trimmingsa. Prettiest of tliese ni-a rod or white currants, raspberries, andi blackberries. Feather honse and dog collars of pearls are indispensable to the wardrobe of dile very smart woman just now. Both fashions ...

... pale flower has served a party pur- pose end is now a market-able commodity. Will he go to thle extetut of grabbing the blackberries on the hedgerows and the bil- berriee on the heatlher? Such meanness is irritating and pitiful. But of such is the kingdom ...

... not yet battened down under a concrete esplanade. Turf, from which every tinge of green had dried, patched with gorse and blackberry bushes and bare grey spots of shingle and sand, made a wide band of uneven ground, which followed the line of the sea, inland ...

... instances of families where one or even two members seem to have got in by mistake, and to belong elsewhere, are as common as blackberries. It is my misfortune (it certainly cannot be considered my fault) to be an example of this latter irregularity. Of a family ...

... outside sources. Blackberries are fruits which should be found on most markets, and in most retail fruit shops. By this we dlo not mean wild blackberries which are sent up as unsorted as they comie from the hedgerows, but cultivated blackberries, growi as ordinary ...

... our contemporary wkrith a subject for a leading article at a time when such subjects are not precisely as plentiful as blackberries. The healing waters of Coritrekxville, corrected by an infusion of the tonic bark of Shoe-lane, ought to prove a highly ...

... cultivate blackberries, I should be glad to know if the fern-leaf blackberry of the nurseryman produces better fruit on sand than the common, and if there is any drawback to growing the fern-leaf blackberry in places where the common blackberry grows ? ...

... will communicate with me, either personally or by letter, I will gladly give him my experiences with the parsley-leaved blackberry. The fruit is large and of good flavour, making excellent jam, jelly, and syrup. I should think it would grow almost anywhere ...

... complain of the protective colouration of the artful golf-ball, has had many pleasant days to be thankful for. A fine crop of blackberries--stuall but of the best quality-has cheered the more humble wanderer on moor and woodland, In England a dry autumn, though ...

... are incidents in the preparation of scarlet rose-berries. The frailer roses of brambles are keepers ofthe rich secret of blackberries; and it is living Autumn that makes the truth known. She herself may smile at the freaks of the race that is so easily ...