... Ancient Monuments Board of Scotland. NATURE STORY Many are now picking blackberries, but it a pity that many go in for quantity rather than quality. Large numbers of blackberries look quite good at first glance, but closer Inspection shows that one or ...

... September. The elder trees hold masses of ripening berries, of which the starlings are so fond and come to gobble greedily. Blackberries and sloes are not plentiful. Although badly beaten down, the corn being carried in splendid weather. The difficulties of ...

... poultry upon the stubbles and the sheep among the clover are familiar sights now. The buzzing of flies tells of over-ripe blackberries on the banks— M. L. D. l ...

... underneath a bathing costume. He was unable to give any account of himself, and said he had been living in fields eating blackberries. He lives with his wife and six children at Dublin. ...

... for soft fruit. many Iji &u 'it was stated, tiie receipts were * cover cost °f picking \ This probably accounts , absence blackberries from shops where they are usually on tat this time of the year. A week o'o, when the season was com- \ ln the fruit commanded ...

... were for the most part conspicuous by their absence. BLACKBERRIES SUFFER. The inclemency of July apparently proved favourable to the whortleuernes, allowing the fruit to swell before ripening. Blackberries, on the contrary, are decidedly poor, all considered ...

... actually see any money passed. Residents in the houses near by had complained of gambling on Sunday afternoons. STOLE THE PLUMS BLACKBERRY PICKERS FINED AT For stealing pounds of plums, valued at 35., Alfred William Pearce, Fred and Roy Pollard, all of Ashfordroad ...

... nightshade from which is derived that most useful drug belladonna. It, often grows amongst the brambles laden with their ripe blackberries, and its fruit, too, is black, like a sweet, ripe, glossy cherry. Two or three will make a child unconscious, and unless ...

... made for the rocks and the beaches, hundreds wandered over the cliffs and the United Services Golf Club course picking blackberries. CI.I B LOSING MONEY AND MEMBERS. An official at the golf club told a representative of The Western Morning News yesterday ...

... Id. peas sd; cabbages 2d to 3d each, cucumbers 5d to 8d; parsley, Id per bunch; raspberries lOd per lb, plums 3>d to 7d, blackberries to 4d : Id and I'd each, pears 2d to 3d; apples Id to 4d per lb, butter Is lOd to 2s, cream 2s to 2s 6d; egtrs, lOd per ...

... to 2d; peas, 4d; cucumbers, 3d to 8d each; cabbages. 2d to 3d; lettuce. Id; raspberries. lOd per lb; plums, lid to 8d; blackberries, 3d to 4d: damsons, 6d; grapes, ls 6d to ls 8d; apples, ld to 4d; pears, 2d to 3d each; butter, ls to 2s per lb; cream ...

... cucumbers, to 8d each; lettuce, Id; cabbages, 2d to 3d; celery, 4d per stick; plums, 2d to 8d per lb; damsons 4d to sd; blackberries. 4d to 6d ; grapes, Is 6d and 8d; apples, Id to 4d; pears, 4d and 2d to 4d each; figs, Id and lid; butter. Is lOd per lb; ...