... . X We may expect rumours regarding changes.in the Premiership and in the Ministry to be more plentiful just now than blackberries. In political circles there is a very strong upression that Lord Salisbury will retire, either after the Coronation, or ...

... poeiry, goes on to say:— $ The wild-rose, eglantire, and broom, Wasted around their rich perfume. If “S.T.” buy a pint of blackberries and a pint of brambl~s, will he not have in his pcssession two pints of brambles? ...

... BLACKBERRY BLOSSOM. ~ Let me venture upon a prophecy, and let it be to say ‘that there will be a first-rate crop of blackberriea this year. It is in the way of mature that it should be so, because of all the plants of the rose order there is none that ...

... berry, which the firm have .been instrumental in bringing into the district. Tt is & cross between the rasp and American blackberry. The comet red currant, a berry of exceptional size and without-the acidity of the ordinary variety, is also shown, along ...

... crowned with success. In spite of haddocks - and cther fishes, which pick off the eggs of the herring ~as children glean blackberries from a bramble bush, herringz abound on our coast, and the many mouths and gill-rakers, ever at work receiving and straining ...

... of Hexham’s beautiful display of plants, amongst which w exhibibed the Y.ogan berry, & cross between the ragpberry and blackberry ;. and the strawhesry-raapberry. Gm‘hi‘;ered' together in the poultry and pigeon secti were many fine birds, and the show ...

... ripen. BLACKBERRY WINE. I have given an order to an acquaintance in the country to get me o many baskets of blackberries gathered from the bushes that yield the blossom with a pinkish tint. This is the best kind of blackber:y for making blackberry wine ...

... Fawcett, CHRONICLES OF THE **COURANT.'? NEWCASTLE AND ROUNDABOUT Br R. J. CHARLETON, - = DICK’S LUCK, By Mrs ALEXANDER, IN BLACKBERRY-LANES, Br HARWOOD BRIERLEY,Y — REMARKS BY OLD JOHN STOBBS TO BOYS AND GIRLS, HIS STEPMOTHER, By MARY ANGELA DICKENS, CONCLUSION ...

... **COURANT.'' NEWCASTLE AND ROUNDABOUT By R. J. CHARLETON. IV.—~THE CASTLE AND BLACEK GATE. DICK’S LUCK, By Mrs ALEXANDER., IN BLACKBERRY-LANES, By HARWOOD BRIERLEY REMARKS BY OLD JOHN STOBBS TGO BOYS AND GIRLS, HIS STEPMOTHER, -~ By MARY ANGELA DICKENS. CONCLUSION ...

... **COURANT.”’ & NEWCASTLE AND ROUNDABQOUT By R. J. CHARLETON. IV.--THE CASTLE AND BLACK GATE. DICK’S LUCK, By Mrs ALEXANDER, IN BLACKBERRY-LANES, By HARWQOD BRIERLEY REMARKS BY COLD JOHN STOBBS TO BOYS AND GIRLS, HIS STEPMOTUER, Br MARY ANGELA DICKENS. OONCLUSION ...

... intelligent caretalder will gladly, I have no doubt, point it out to anyone. s COWSLIP WINE. The other day I was writing of blackberry wine and of dewberry wine: to-day, I am drinking cowslip wine. How very fine it is! What a bouquet! How it nesties in the ...

... change has come over the scene. Ripe berries are few and far between, and there is little prospect of future blackberry dumplings, or of blackberry jam. At an earlier stage there were reasonable prospects of a fairly good crop. The wellknown white and p ...