... our in terference will be. It is very evident from the prices charged for blackberries tn the market that there is a n increasino- public appreciation of them. tarts and blackberries in ja m are better liked for these respective uses than any other kind ...

... E nglish blackberries, the little-known Rubus Schl echten- is superior in quality of fruit to and the equal Giant. Of the true E nglish blackberries, the little-known form Schl echten- and the equal in cropping to almost any ot he r blackberry grown, and ...

... over thirty years, and its creation is entirely the work of the farmer named. At one time Mr. Smith rented the extensive BLACKBERRY CHICKENS. HIS is a name which country- N.~pson. A FOUR-HORNED RAM. copyright, Alexander Baird), and at time folk give ...

... Gurtha exercise that joy of childish hearts-the love of giving. Gurtha would shyly bold out a cl ocldeaf full of early blackberries, Molly would jump recklessly on the garden wall when she saw us coming, and tear off great branches of the fuchsia that ...

... the mall throng, like rey shadows in the morning mist, off surround the mo,·ed off hazel copse. Gossamers hung from the blackberries. Thank goodnes Elizabeth ' pony was behaving perfectly but m y mount cast the tunperament of a fat slug with the uddennes ...

... and the John Innes Blackberry are as good as any. \.Vhere there is room, many of these blackberries and hybrid berries are well worth trying. The Himalayan Berry, for example, is an extremely vigorous and prolific early blackberry, and has the curious ...

... where blackberries and nuts have been extremely plentiful. Of recent years the blackberry has been rai ed from its humble estate and become an ordinary subject for the preserving-pan. As a result, the bands of village children who go blackberrying after ...

... eat in its raw state, but country wives make uncommonly fine jelly of it , and they also have a way of preserving it with blackberries that provides them with an appetising jam for roly-polies. Other berries, where they are available, can also be preserved ...

... lar~est of Ilre American Blackberries, which they resemble in form, but are deep rcrldish lar~est of Ilre spri~htly, a mingling of the Raspberry and Blackberry, melting, and the fruit is without core. The berries are firm like Blackberries, and keep a long time ...

... the joyous fish of summer seas, with us from the t ime when swallows skim over the uncut hay to the period of the ripening blackberry ; and within these limits lies all the most enjoyable of the year's seafi shing, though enthusiasts are found to brave the ...

... e, on the whole, t': the farmer and the garden, has been in favour, no less, of al l the wild fru its of the earth. The blackberries and the nuts are very plentiful in the hedges, and have enjoyed just that clue succession of sun to ri pen them and rain ...

... Ripening to a gleammg Jet, and heavy with wine red juice, these strange objects might be likened to large corn-cobs set with blackberries, and a plant wlll yleld a successional crop from full summer to late Thus it is by no means Lmcommon autwnn. Thus it is ...