... bearing it is a hybrid between the raspberry and the common blackberry, and it bids fair to become very useful. The Mahdi, as the plant has been called, has very mach thebabit of the blackberry, and in cultivation is trained in the same way. The taste of ...

... tints will take their place. The swallows leave us, and the fieldfare and other winged visitors arrive. The nuts and the blackberries are ripening for the gathering. There is no turn of the calen- dar that is dull, and the autumnal equinox with the gales ...

... found amidst the Skegness sand dunes, where she bad been hiding for five w3eks. During that time she had existed mainly on blackberries and raw turnips, and it is probable that she would have starvfcd to death but for a rumour getting abroad which led to ...

... SOYS' ADVENTURE. TLnee boys who hr:d baon blackberry] no; near the Treti! Qcnnries, above Tredegar, had a mira.cu- ions escape ye=!totdn.y. They disconnected tta empty tra.fn nad jamped into it with a. view of rid- !HKdn!?n a. portion of tho jouraey homewa ...

... house which led up to Mr Radcliffe's bouse. Have you ever aeen the road used by strangers ? —Yes, picking mushrooms and blackberries. Have yon seen many people go there for that purpose ?—Yes. Recently ?—I did not see any Saturday. Havo you aeen anybody ...

... hand on her skirt, to cut water-cresses in the ditches, or drive the ducks to the rivulets, or gather olives, chest- nuts, blackberries, wood-strawberries, or do any one of those other lighter labours which occupy the old people and the young children in ...