... tended by man the blackberry comes first. Even when orchards provide but a poor crop the housewife need never be short of jam so long as September clothes the hedges with such wholesome plenty. Many are the varieties of the blackberry. There is the large ...

... Fruit. UNSUITABLE BOXES. Our representative learned that during the blackberry season from 30 to parcels of blackberries are sent from the Torquay -area on the night mail. Blackberries sent from the country suboffices are in chip baskets or cardboard, ...

... A Noss Mayo resident has in his garde several primroses and strawberry plants , blossom. During last week several heads blackberry blossom and violets were seen. ...

... forthcoming. Tiie development of the cultivated blackberry and cranberry has found favour with the Ministry of Agriculture, and Kent farmers have taken up the project wholeheartedly, abandoning hop-growing for blackberry, cranberry, and loganberry cultivation ...

... sugari-teaspoonl'ul *ib. seedless raisins, jib. apples. Alb. blackberries. Grated rind J-lemon. little water. Commence with fruit mixture. Peel and .slice the apples and wash the blackberries. Stew them to pulp with little water and the grated lemon rind ...

... great colonies of flo\ . are battered and dashed low to the Some of the old orchards smile with ing fruit, hut, as with the blackberries, ° typical September wild fruit, more colour taste must be present this sunless year- M. L. D. ...

... thrive in the moist land. They are now handsome planls, taller than the tallest nettles. Some of the bramble brakes have blackberries ripe gather, with much fruit in various of ripeness.—M. L. D. ...

... These days of ill-weather see many birds and wild creatures skulking in the bramble tangles and the wood clearings. The blackberries are not ripening well, but the hazel nuts continue to swell. What their future will hold the way of kernels know not. Certain ...

... the honeysuckles have come into bloom again. Some hedgerows have sheets of honeysuckle bloom, and the juiciest, ripest blackberries of the year are now there Xor the picking.—M. L. D. ...

... In the second nest the bird was still sitting. Both nests are low down in bramble clumps, and were discovered during blackberrying rambles. Are there any records of stock doves breeding in Cornwall? I have had a pair under observation throughout the ...

... they arc fair Devon. In most districts they are bad or very bed. Damsons are fair in some district* and nad in others, and blackberries ctfU* vated for canning are good Essex, ...

... daintily picking dewberries off a bush in the middle of a bramble tangle. The fox must have known the difference between blackberries and dewberries, a difference which very few people seem know, although the dewberry larger, more juicy, and dusted with ...