... that blackberries were wanted up at the house for blackberry-cheese . . . at the current price ? A young woman with a baby in a perambulator came round out of the high road as I reached the garden gate. Yes, she lived at the cottage. Blackberries ? Yes ...

... in the awkwardly named raspberry-cum-blackberry originatednear 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 the'y are flavourless without the I witchery of the sun. No blackberry should be eaten until the sun has warmed it; then only you have the true flavour ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... mysteriously as 1 passed, and was hedged with broom and furze and bramble. . Here and there you might see a cluster of late blackberries high out of reach and shining in the sun. December as it is, the whole day -shone. It was such a day as gives you gleams ...

... 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 ...

... arms spectral against the deepening blue; Being so near I had not the heart to turnaback. The hill was rough-a tangle of blackberry vines; here and there little paths started, only to end in nothing. After two or three false attempts I gave up the paths ...