... first day of autumn a person goes to a lonely lane and stands on tip-toe with the right arm fully extended upwards, the blackberries will still be just out of reach. ...

... for keeping cows out of the corn and bulls at a safe distance; that it provides a convenient parking place for birds and blackberries; and that fairies like nothing better than to enter through any gaps that Time (and schoolboys playing Red Indians ) ...

... opened for an instant upon cosy rooms. We chilly travellers turned to our favourite inn—to scrambled eggs, a new brown loaf, blackberry jam. and a big, round fruit cake. It needed strength of mind to go out againbut on a night like this the village would look ...

... of Currants I (Helen Burke) am going to try this same recipe, omitting the currants, but placing a small teaspoonful of blackberry jelly on the pastry before adding the rice filling—because jt is something like another cheesecake recipe f nave used a ...

... yourself. Theodora made an impatient gesture. Tell me, went on Michael, what berries are ripe at this time of the year ? Blackberries. Why ? inquired Theodora. That's what you and I are going to picit to-morrow, Michael told her assuredly. Don't be ...

... 4- + 4- The easiest fruits to bottle and keep well are berries. I advise beginners to start with raspberries, blackberries, loganberries and currants (rhubarb, too, is easily done), then proceed to cherries, plums, pears and, if you can get a good preserving ...

... sides of the vessel. Cover with boiling water. Put on the pan's lid (tight fitting) and boil for the required time. I give blackberries, cherries, currants, gooseberries, rhubarb, raspberries, loganberries and unscrewing the metal screw or removing clamps ...

... RUSTIC RIVALRY (Blackberry picking contests are being held in many country districts.) In our village. neat and pretty, we've elected a committee With the dear, benign old vicar in the chair, Which, with Farmer Giles advising, has been busy organising ...

... Bees, Ltd., 175. J, Mill St., Liverpool. laciniated form of the wild blackberry, I said. That explains why I didn't recognise it. It's better known as the Parsley-leaved blackberry, and its finely-cut foliage is attractive enough to earn it a place ...

... IS there a asked Rob; over the fence. One look at h At a rough guess neighbour had peevish timber w, What on eart Blackberries, the scarred featur There was no too, have blackberr lied by brambles' through hedges was a cow, after jury —have been ...

... My sympathy suggested that Rol Home-grown heard of them ! Which only sh, of the world does: has in its garden. Blackberries, tip ation and the fruit breeders have proved it. Numerous improved forms of the wild type, as well as hybrid varieties and ...

... But I don't think it will go through, he added. We should like our relatives to be there. BLACKBERRY KILLS BABY: FOUND IT ON THE FLOOR A blackberry, probably picked up from the floor, caused the death of Joyce, the ninemonth-old daughter of Mrs ...