... improvement* will be completed by the Office of Works before the House reassembles in October. THE BLACKBERRY CROP. THOUSANDS OF POUNDS LOST ANNUALLY. What blackberries have reached the market are of poor quality, and those still ripening in the North of England ...

... things, and one of the best is to kill off early in the season the old cocks, whose habit cf wandering away in search of blackberries and acorns so well known ; but to slaughter the innocents, before they are able to provide sport, for fear that they should ...

... shook from his wings the dew, Tbe day when we went blackberrying. Of all the fruits in bush and bower I trow the blackberry is king, Or so we vowed in one sweet hour Tbfe morning we went blackberrying. A question should be addressed without delay to the ...

... luscious blackberries, unsullied by contact with market baskets and the smoke of cities, just touched with the pure dew Heavro, and gathered fresh from the hedge-top, are no mean illustration of ambrosia. I confess, with no shame, that to blackberry-piling ...

... the creation of an institute for research work in cancer cases. So mild is the weather in Cornwall at present that ripe blackberries may still be seen near the little village of Probus, and in other parts. Wild strawberry blossom also still brightens the ...

... ate at home. But Mr. Hurst was accounting for a declining business, and reasons to explain a set-back are as plentiful as blackberries in the autumn. June;, 1907. ...

... berries of several kinds, will gradually replace the wealth of flowers we have had and still have. Elderberries, cranberries, blackberries, are all to be seen, and there will of course be feathers of all sires and colours. The cloche shape is to give way to ...

... trees adoriu ing our hills and dales. And who has not rejoiced in the humble, all beautifying bramble, the delights of the blackberry picking with the inevitable thorn prickles’ and occasional short, but sharp, disputes with epicurean bees? You may bring ...

... Elizabeth’s time a cask was a present for the Queen. But on this manor each tenant had to bring a bushel and a peck of blackberries to the* Palace at the season of vintage, receiving a bushel of white wheat in exchange; so the wine was doctored,” possibly ...

... suggestion that would probably add to the already heavy damage com. mitted by thoughtless gatherers of such things as nuts and blackberries. As soon as it became known that garden roses could be had in certain hedge for nothing, that hedge would very soon be ...

... brown earth, and amid long trailing grasses, while in their wake ripen apace the luscious bilberries, and, later on, the blackberries, pride of many an English countryside, where already the sheen of blossom spreads with increasing glory o’er hedgerow far ...

... and away back to that pious trio, Lydgate and Jocelyn and the Abbot Samson. For writers and poets and such grow plenty as blackberries East Anglia; and the literary rambler’s difficulty not what to put iq, but what to leave out. His themes for discursive ...