... blackberries. . -V w : u them black, and not red-and-black merely, to be reidy to the harvest, decked, equipped, f r C Jh. byw.y, io«ld fir. «. good . hoM«- bl.ckb.rr, dJUs. sort of blackberry jelly, I teanwd, ;°_‘.y.2!r .Sh U.. cilour of por. “ .chl«im«M ...

... in the awkwardly named raspberry-cum-blackberry originated near Manchester. But these rivals have diversities of excellence, because the English fruit is a hybrid between the raspberry and the British blackberry, while one of the parents of the Logan ...

... everything ; the backward glance, in most cases, weakness and folly. A few blackberries still linger, but they are flavourless without the witchery of the sun. No blackberry should be eaten until the sun has warmed it; then only you have the true flavour ...

... pom-poms. In a word, Wagner, from the concert po of view, has been very, much overdone; and Wagner night is now common autumn blackberry. For some time to come the prune manager of concerts will need use his Wagner very judiciously, a cook with the use of ...

... I have been urging various people to improve the blackberry by cultivation and grafting, and at last it appears a satisfactory result has been obtained by the union of the raspberry and the blackberry. I have not yet tasted it, nor have I met with anyone ...

... of green food during the string ant summer. Chicory, dandelion hedge parsley, sow thistle, grass and elover radish tops, blackberry leaves, turnip tops, freah peapods, andeiibbage aad lettucsteaves, are generally easily proeurable. In tow~ns. cabbago, ...

... invasion the direction of Northfleet, while tea gardens sprang up everywhere, and billiard tables became as plentiful as blackberries. A quarter of a mile westward from the town, few places presented an appearance of greater sterility and desolation than ...

... down the ripe fruit. The new blackberry-raspberry which was to startle the markets under the somewhat obsolescent title of The Mahdi has not made its expected splash, but mulberries, which would be bad to beat by any blackberry, however improved, are in ...

... delicate. OCTOBER Irish folklore of the seventeenth century tells us that on Michael- mas Day the devil puts his foot on the blackberries. Let us hope that the brambles do their duty ! The date is clearly old style, as the iith of our present October and the ...

... and are geaerally bad losers. It appears that gardeners have invented a new fruit, a cross between the blackberry and some other berry. The blackberry has been too much neglected except by street urchins ; it can be culti- vated in the garden and will repay ...

... little people, 'out the favourites were those: *3io had'caugh~t.the war fever. Kha~ki uni-.. .foruus'were as plentiful as blackberries.. A~mong the most notice'able'bo'is' dresses iveqn thiose of Maston S jtanley Woodma,lt} ,who was, attired ats a lieutenant ...

... the wild convolvulus, the deep green of the ivy, the blood- red clusters of the ampelopsis, the brilliant colours of the blackberry leaf, the berries of the barberry, the mountain ash, the elder, and the wild rose, feathery grasses and green rushes make ...