... THE BLACKBERRY CROP. This has been a singularly good year for blackberries. In Sussex the hedgerows are laden, and some of the fruit are of a remarkable size: Probably the dry summer, followed by the recent rains, which came just as the young berries ...

... BLACKBERRY JAM. My housewiyes must not think ml neglectful of their interests. The time 01 blackberries is here,and reminds me that licious preserves and puddings can be mad( with them. The objection made by housewives is that in making blackbern preserve ...

... is o minded. Blackberry cordial is excellent. Blackberries are very good taken anyway. As jelly, or if the icily is i;l:xed with hot water and taken as a liduiLL., it is excellent for a cold. To make the cordial mix one pound of blackberries,or one pound ...

... other harvests ready for the gathering. Autumn is rich in harvests. Hazelnuts are growing in woody lanes, and on every side blackberries are fast ripening. If you are a cyclist you will be able to roam further afield and to more secluded spots, in search of ...

... standing up, whether with astonishment or not I cannot say. Then the delight, again, of getting off when a great bunch of blackberries nod to you, as much as to say, Come and eat me ; lam quite ready. And the sweet hazelnuts—what quantities we saw. We ...

... I can give you a recipe for IGNORANT blackberry wine and elderuousEwrfax, berry wine, and should think WIGAN. that the best way would be by mixing the fruit and than use either of these recipes :—Blackberry wino: Gather the fruit when ripe, on a dry ...

... There is a lane leading to Medlicott, ankle deep in sand, it must be owned, but filled full of . colour and perfume. The blackberry hedges are splendid with the trappings of fairy horses, pure gold upon gold, and the grassy borders are threaded thick ...

... gave information about me. At a little place nineteen miles from Portland I concealed myself in a field. Two men came in blackberrying, and I had to get out. They asked where I was going. I said to Blandford.' They volunteeted to show me the vay, but we ...

... the harbour. The former %yes diowned, and latter subsequently chatg 6 ' recipe is for apple and blackberry jelly. airested on a of Manslaughter. _ Blackberries, I may say, are Still to be, le e d is of Ellis clerlett, _the Denglas ' for the gathering—not ...

... their pockets with the fruit, went in swimming, took a tramp of about four miles after the cows, picking ten quarts of blackberries on the way, went to acornroast in the evening, followed by an old-fashioned breakdown in lila kitchen, and another round ...

... there were wild raspberics in rich plenty, and when we were fairly upon the mountains there was abundance of delicious ripe blackberries.' Now, where I sat waiting for the peasant to return with news of the path, the vege Wien had chan,ed. A very black and ...

... humanity than the unattainable. The topmost apple on the tree is always the most rosy. The very school children who gather blackberries in the glorious autumn vote the unreachable fruit the blackest and most luscious. Lady Gilchrist, possessed of a handsome ...