... esoteric meaning to the initiated. And even the blackberry plays a humble part in the system, for, according to Cornish people, the first blackberry seen will banish warts. parts of Ireland decoction of blackberry leaves in hot water is recommended for diarrhoea ...

... would on no account allow their children to go blackberrying after the date fixed for this diabolic seisin. Thick as blackberries seems now to the form of the proverb which Falstafi gave as Plenty as blackberries,’’ and it is possible that, to some extent ...

... scene. But the blackberries, they are everywhere, like the salt water in Coleridge’s Lay the Ancient Mariner.” The hedgerows are covered with them, and if the villagers were nob too busy with their dairy work they might make tons of blackberry jam such as ...

... pest, and in parts Now South Wales the blackberry is so prolific that the .ruit is | gathered the ton, in place vf the bushel hundred-weight with which English blackberry gatherers are familiar. The blackberry is finest and most abundant on the coast ...

... DEADLY NIGHTSHADE. Seven! children were out blackberrying at Atherstone Saturday when two brotiiers named Ford ate several berries of Deadly Nightshade mistake. both boys afterwards complained of feeling ill, and one of them subsequently died rom belladonna ...

... said ineffable trash.” good manv uses have at various tunes been found for'blackberries. In some places wine is made from them; red muscat said to be coloured infusion of blackberries; elsewhere they are used for making a dye. The leaves in decoction are ...

... SERVICES “Blackberry” services have been held at the two town churches of Woking. At one church the children’s offerings of the fruit, picked by themselves from bushes and hergerows, amounted to 901 b., and at the other 701 b. The blackberries have been ...

... multiplied by its second and third, result multiplied by ita third, result by its fourth, equals the original number. BLACKBERRIES. The blackberry comes to maturity late, for has to struggle hard for life under many adverse conditions. It is rarely ripe until ...

... hedges green. What blackberries! Plague \ send, half-reid, fibrous, unlier-sized, indigestible, stomach-ache-inviting berries that ■with the present youth pass for blackberries. These berries that wot of were black-berries, juicy black-berries, as large as ...

... ” Still, will you allow to point out that in the uorth-weetern suburbs we have not to very far afield in quest of nuts, blackberries, sloes, and crab-apples before we find them? It will hardly be credited, but two or three months ago, and long before they ...

... are we if can use both. Mr. Huxley once said “Clever men are as common as blackberries.'* Evidently thought that, or he would not have written it. If be had said, Blackberries are as common as clever men, would have been as near the truth. Mr. Huxley’s ...

... appeal To save him from his friends. BLACKBERRIES AND ACORNS. The profusion of fruit this year has extender itself the hedgerow, where blackberries and have been extremely plentiful. Of recent vears the blackberry has been raised from its humble estate ...