... beans. improvement), the loganberry (a cross between a raspberry and a blackberry), the laxtonberry (loganberry crossed raspberry), and the lowberry (loganberry crossed blackberry). Our opinion is that the logan is “the ” culinary fruit, whilst the laxton ...

... be, And nothing more divide us : / Than * the narrow strip of sea!” Blackberry Gathering. - Owing to the comparative failure of the standard fruit crops, the collection of the blackberry has become very important this year. The Ministry of Food have got ...

... n-Avon eight, so that for a country holiday it is very happily placed. In the autumn the common is rich with blackberries, and as blackberry picking visitors are few and the country people indifferent to the fruit much of it spoils for want of gathering ...

... red admirals” and a brood of ““ tortoiseshells.’ Leaving the road we turned into a field where the hedge was nut trees and blackberry bushes. The next field was covered with gorse bushes and hare bells, which to my mind was a strange combination, the gorse ...

... a great centre to take the place of the old Bolton man. Inmodern times it is-goals that count, and goals do not grow- on blackberry- bushes. They grow on the toes of men like Shepherd or Cantrell, or Parkinson, or Whittingham. = ...

... stout trowel, one week-end, will leave a margin of profit. The brambles bear their best fruit on their one-year-old stems. Blackberries and all brambles crop the first season following planting, and no pruning is require before this first crop. Afterwards ...

... stems of the same year’s origin. Their number should have been limited to six, seven or eight in the spring. The brambles (blackberries, lowberries, loganberries, etc.) have the same habit of cropping as the summer raspberry, but their constitution is so ...

... and maintained loose and light, by which means it does not become so hard bound during intense frests, nor 5o cold below. Blackberries will do well and be profitable in any garden so long as they receive proper attention. At the present time any old plants ...

... trifle for fuel, the cost of the jelly works out at just over Id. a pound jar. The previous year I made the same amount of blackberry jam and jelly at the same cost. When fruit has to be bought the cost is slightly increased, but is still less than that ...

... summer’s eve, to watch the birds flitting low from hedge to hedge ere they settle for the night: and,in autumn, no where do blackberries grow in such luscious profusion as in this sequestered spot. : At the foot of the Common is an old world cottage in an ...

... and later on there comes a time when she ends by accepting his excuses. There is a prospect of a good blackberry crop this year, so that blackberry pickers will later on be able to come up to the scratch. s 8 2 8 The ** Berliner Tageblatt” refers to the ...

... colder districts. The planting season for the bush fruits and for brambles can be the present. Do not forget a parsley-leaved blackberry, and a Lowberry. * British Queen ” is the show strawberry, but will not succeed everywhere. Try half a dozen plants. ‘‘ ...