... heir-apparent to the throne, but the ordinary recurrence of a Royal birthday, or the turn of the vear, shower baronetcies lile blackberries, and peerages like plums into the baskets of eager applicants. PEEL AND THE QUEEN. It is odd to notice the way even Peel ...

... wi4 blackthorn, which, tho-ugh a plum, is so nearly allied toapear that pears may be grafted on it. And then brakes of blackberries, especially of the parsley- lerired kind, so free of growth and se generous of fruit. . . . +. The grass shoul d be left ...

... proper bramble, the little flower that has the blackberry for fruit, flattered, for the time, by the name of rose ? If so, I think this Dirge of Tennyson's is the only poem that has celebrated the blackberry-blossom-tender little form of a rose that has ...

... on horticulture in America atre pu blished simultaneously by Messrs. MNac- millanl and Co. There' are ' Bush vriuits I(blackberries, raspberries, ?? by Fred. W. Card, and Evolution of our Native Fruits,, by L. H. Bailey. Other recent volumes of technical ...

... 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 ...

... perhaps aict mnuch of a bei distmuatioto., Generais in some parts of Seath pial Amer-.ica be ing almnost as plentiful ats blackberries O11t ina1, igrlaud : ?? G en eral Aetor lo oked everyinci LeI a sl~ier, just the turin, I thought, to wviu thle l baibble ...

... coastgaurd for a period yof 2; years, they vill receive as much as 6s. per day; nd but these appointments are ''arce as blackberries in June. It must be admitted'that ithe pay of these guardians of bur rock-bound 'oasts is not excessive, even when t the ...

... ailliam PFenn, Challenge, and is King of Russets3; and from Mr. J. Baker, 20,~ Aston- street, Oxford, a basket of cultivated blackberries aof large size and fully ripe. The s ports,' which attracted much attention, hand affored a large fund of amusement, were ...

... HISTORY OF RIP VAN WINK:LE. Plays on this marvellous legend, as set forth by Washington Irving, are as plentiful as blackberries in autumn, and though in some small points they may differ in essentials they are all very much alike. The history of Rip ...

... And so on and so on. Ghastly and comic stories of people, European and Asiatic, whom Mr. Montagu has met, are thick as blackberries, and give a very realistic idea of the many sides of war. And for veracious romance it would be hard to beat the stories ...