... 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 ...

... to the more circumlocutory methods of Mr. Balfour. Yesterday was again a day of deputations. They were as plentiful as blackberries in autumn. Mr. Balfour aikd Sir George were the recipients of visits from the chemists and druggists of the division, the ...

... the mother con- tiued, were recommended bya friend, and after- wards, when that did no good, a gentleman recomnmended blackberries. It seems queer, but the gentleman said it had cured his wife,iand I wasiready to try anything on earth. I got black- berries ...

... Skrine and E. D. Ross. INs. 6d. net. (Methuen and Co.) East Coast Stnery. F-ambles through Towns and Village, Nutting, Blackberrying, and Mush. rooming; Sea Fishing, Wild-fowl Shooting, &c. By W. J. Tate. Zs. 6d. (Jarrold and Sons.) GERMAN SHIPBUILDING ...

... 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 ...

... y possibilities. It was sent by Messrs. 'Witch and Sens, uf Chelsea, and was described as a hybrid of the raspberly and blackberry. Both the fruit and the flowets were of •anusual excellence, but the merits of fruit sent by Mrs. Abbott, of Regent'spark ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... depth of the water would be from five to six ?? James. Edwards, eleven years of age, said he was near the pool getting blackberries. The girl Mary Jane wvas ,oing across when she fell into the water. Then the other one came there, and Mary Jane, in trying ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...