... protecting flowers, ferns, and trees. He said that great help could be obtained the law allowed landowners, as in the case of blackberries mushrooms, to put up notice prohibiting the taking of wild Mowers, &c, which, it was disregarded, would render the culprits ...

... self-sown in many gardens is Virginian pokeweed (pbytolacea deeandra). The fruit forms a long cluster ol juicy berries like blackberries, around a terminal spike some four or five inches long. The juice of the fruit is, or was, used for colouring confectionery ...