... to the blackberry, owing to its supposed tendency to produce tbe eruption known as scald-head in children. This however is finite an erroneous idea, for doctors and scientists are agreed that the blackberry is one of the most wholesome fruits, and it was ...

... THE BLACKBERRIES. The native blackberries, and the otjier blackberries. are dessert as well as culinary fruits. would like to commend the ordinary blackberry-that wild, bramble fruit of the hedgerows our isles. Those who have never seen plateful of cultivated ...

... THE BLACKBERRIES. Years before the recognition of the fruit of the heilgerows tile wild blackberry Barden crop, the writer grew it in bis gardens. The difference between a plateful of cultivated blackberries and the dusty and small fruits from the lanes ...

... preserving it for future consumption in the form of jam. Sugar is as essential to the blackberry as is salt to the egg, itself become a rare luxury. While the blackberry enjoys a moderate esteem in this country it is not universal favourite. In certain districts ...

... bearing season is extended. too; seeing that wellnourished plants keep on flowering. The wild blackberry, the native rut-leaved variety (the parsley-leaf blackberry), Himalayan Giant, and the American varieties are dessert as well as culinary fruit. In a ...

... BLACKBERRYING, We’re off to gather blackberries, And know just where to go. Along the hedges in the fields Where lovely berries grow. We’ve got deep baskets and some sticks, Our oldest clothes will do, For then it will not matter that We get a tear two ...

... Blackberries blackberries are figuring extensively in the news, and are almost clamourously taking the place once actively occupied by Irish blackthorns. When the blackthorn was in season, from the newspaper point of view Ireland was one of the hottest ...

... WITH BLACKBERRIES By Mrs Mabel M. Hart JELLY: —Cut up a pound of appleswhich should not be peeled or cored —and place in a pan with 41b. of blackberries. Cover the fruit with water, bring to the boil, and stew gently until all the juice has been extracted ...

... BLACKBERRIES. ---:o:--- To-day the hawthorn valley, where I once had a vision of youth and spring was a valley of berries. Instead of the fragrant foam of blossom were the red !ening Iws. Moreover. it was dreary with a leaden mist that there , was no ...

... THE BLACKBERRIES. stoles' sweets are always swedes, kisses much completer. `i deu looks am nice in diary's, 1'.•1 the fruit were scarce worth taking Were it not for stealing. stealing. 'tear fruit has increased the popularity the ordinary blackberry—that ...

... THE BLACKBERRIES. Years before the recognition of the fruit of the hedgerows—the wild blackberry—as a garden crop, the writer grew it in his gardens. The difference between a plateful of cultivated blackberries and the dusty and small fruits from the ...

... BLACKBERRY Many of the American blackberrife are excel lent fruit; Strung, well &tined clay soli are but the planta thrive almost anywhere. Where poiaible, a le a uitablv. On good roils no manure is needed until the phynts are in bearing, and then artificial ...