... then mainly in late winter an l early spring. Heather, birch buds and catkins, cottongrass in spring, herb and gra ses, blackberries, rowan benies, oats and barley, insects-these form the major part of their cl iet. Trees are never killed. When the leader ...

... then mainly in late winter an l early spring. Heather, birch buds and catkins, cottongrass in spring, herb and gra ses, blackberries, rowan benies, oats and barley, insects-these form the major part of their cl iet. Trees are never killed. When the leader ...

... except the citrus variety. he eats apples, plums, grape and raisins with pleasure and will take trawberries, ra pberries and blackberries, with delicate accu racy, from the pla nts. l often choose a banana for my lunch, and no sooner ha,·e I peeled it and put ...

... terrain, farm life, fishing life, quarrying life, Dark Age life, prehistoric life. glaciation, ero ion, slipe boolies, blackberries, sand-eels, and all, with about as much regret as delight. I have only seen the i\[oumes like that, blue from tops to bottoms ...

... terrain, farm life, fishing life, quarrying life, Dark Age life, prehistoric life. glaciation, ero ion, slipe boolies, blackberries, sand-eels, and all, with about as much regret as delight. I have only seen the i\[oumes like that, blue from tops to bottoms ...

... . This year, incidentally, the elderberry is short of fruit, and this seems to be the case in our locality as a whole. Blackberries are nui~ance as ow that my fishing rods are put away, I look back at the season with some satisfaction. I didn't do too ...

... apples t o be picked up. We shall have a few apple tarts and apple pies for a while and stewed apples with blackberries, if we can find any. Blackberries are not plentiful hereabouts this year and there is great competition among the gatherers who search the ...

... his d iet. One colony I ·as watching in late ummer journeyed to a wood where blackberry bushes grew low to the and fea ted on the fruit every night . Foxe eat blackberries; and sometimes enjoy windfall applesa curious mixture with mou c or I knew a tame ...

... railway engine. After that we went farther afield to return with a bunch of primroses or some leafy sprays or a basket of blackberries. Sometimes we stopped to have tea and rock cakes vvith an aunt in a high-ceilingecl drawing-room with white lace curtains ...

... his d iet. One colony I ·as watching in late ummer journeyed to a wood where blackberry bushes grew low to the and fea ted on the fruit every night . Foxe eat blackberries; and sometimes enjoy windfall applesa curious mixture with mou c or I knew a tame ...

... places. The elderberry must be ta ken while it lasts. A frost quickly brings the fru it lo ruin. lt falls like the spoiled blackberry. Everything in its season, one might say. There is a lean time to come, perhaps in J anuary or February when pigeon and ...

... SOME ORNAMENTAL BRAMBLES IN MY GARDEN T HE genus Rubus includes such well-known fruiters as the raspberry, blackberry and loganberry, but it also comprises a nmnber of ornamental shrubs, long cultivated in gardens and yet unfamiliar to the majority of ...