... 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 ...

... 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 ...