... an ideal site for thier camp, which gains ample seclusion from tall hedges and trees. Round the meadow is a profusion of blackberry bushes, and since a neighbour is very liberal with her apples it is scarcely difficult to guess what the quartermaster thinks ...

... magnificent collection weighing over 8 lbs. ; second, Mrs. Cardy ; third, Miss Sque. A competition for the best dish made from blackberries and judged by Mrs. Hopgood, gave first place to Mrs. Fielding; second to Mrs. Brett. Much amusement was derived from another ...

... do to me. We pass on for some threequarters of a mile between the hedgerows, at this season of the year plentiful with blackberries. Alas! our hedgerow lanes are fast passing. Under the ruthless axe they are giving way to widening schemes, arterial roads ...

... However brightly the sun shines we get a sharp reminder now and then that Autumn is with us, if it's only little things like blackberries, a few fallen leaves and a nip in the air in the morning. Not that in this year of grace we have had a great deal to complain ...

... the other helpers and sup- precept. The use of Sunday hawthorn, but Cowes ha, for the recreation of the mind, ated with blackberrie porters during the year. Mr. B. D. Rustom, the a grasp of what life should be, other day a Mr. White and how to live, would ...

... at Woodside, our early primroses and hawthorn, but Cowes has retaliated with blackberries! The other day a Mr. White, who lives there, discovered some nearly ripe blackberries, and quite a lot of bloom as well, on some bushes out I 'n the open. COMMENTATOR ...

... - t t Blackberry Time. Blackberry time is almost here. Many of the berries have already turned red, and a few are black and ripe . . A blackberrying picnic, providing you have long arms and are wearing old clothes, can be very amusing. But beware of ...

... places, of us really take advantage of the decorations which Autumn has to offer, but with the deep maroon sprigs of dying blackberry leaves, the russet beech sprays, scarlet hips and haws. the yellow of gorse and the crimsons of the leaves of sumac and ...

... most of the other popular Forest thoroughfares, cars were drawn up on the grass while their owners sunbathed or picked blackberries. Sleeveless cotton frocks and no hats seemed the rule, and round the Tea Kettle Inn on the Ringwood Road, a spot from which ...

... and greens. but as the Imps make all the ink used in Fairyland they soon become quite black. Their favourite foods are blackberries, and chocolate bhmemange 'when they can get it. So it you meet an Imp you will know what give him. ...

... prospective passenger and tell him! . for another year. BLACKBERRY CROP HOLIDAY SHOPPING Judging by the fine display of bloom Most shopkeeper , welcome the holi- and green fruit on the blackberry days, and the extra local. purchasers, bushes, there should ...

... The Juniors' --0 Dear Juniors,—Here we are in the mouth of blackberries! I hope you will all have some jolly blackberrying picnics. Don't forget to take a stick with a crook, to reach the tall ones with. The best always grow high! Yours chee-rily, ...