... BLACKBERRYING. The sun is up in a bright blue sky, And all the world’s aglow. Come fetch your baskets, girls and boys, For a-blackberrying we'll go. g 1 kuow a spot where the ripe fruit hangs, Luscious and black as sloe, Below the stream, round the h ...

... occasions he expressed the hope that plaintiff would become his wife, but she did not definitely accept him until they went blackberrying together. The courtship continued until May last, when Miss Tomlinson saw defendant at Rufford Show arm in arm with another ...

... .” —Emerson, Go into the fields to-day and you will see the hedges red and purple with a great crop of blackberries. Every year, when blackberries are abundant, the newspapers deplore the waste of hundreds of tons of wholesome and delicious fruit ; but ...

... high road invariably bear a good crop of fruit?” asked another seedsman. “Take also the case of blackberries that grow on the hedges. Wayside blackberries are well-known to be the sweetest and most abundant obtainable. ‘They are fertilised by road dust ...

... Counsel for the prosecution said that the girl, who was known to Rumens, left home about five o’clock in the evening to go blackberrying. She walked down the road with two little boys, and was overtaken by Rumens, who walked along with her. Rumens and the ...

... Is. 13d. each. Two gentlemen passing & blackberry bush when the fruit was unripe, one said it was ridiculous to call them blackberries, when they were red. * Don’t you know,” said his friend, * that blackberries are always red when they are green.” Eav's ...

... the blackberry ; our American cousins, however, who are far more wide-a-wake than we are in a good many points, do so, and have their named varieties—Lawsons, Kittatinnies, Wilson Juniors, and so forth, and why ghould not we? A well-made blackberry pudding ...

... touch beer or wine, drink so eagerly and coulidi ugly. CULTIVATING TILE BLACKBERRY. Mr. Alexander Harley, Stenhousemuir, writes tc the as follows on the cultivation of the blackberry or bramble: I visit frequently thine who are cultivating the bramble ...

... Mulchings of rich manure, copious supplies of water, and liquid manure are of great assistance. _The cultivated forms of Blackberries are rtoduotive where they succeed. Stro . rich soil, deep and moist, is what they require. n&b«y must be fmn, mulched in ...

... tlf\io etopper. The air wifi be as effective as the fire. Apples and blackberries when cooked together should not be mixed, but arranged in layers. For a tart put a layer of blackberries on the bottom and then apples on the top. In this way both kinds of ...

... other fruits are scarce, and blackberry jam is now put u in enormous ¢uantities by preserving firms, ant’l) it meets an increasing demand in the cities and towns. A good trade will, of course, be done in fresh blackberries by the retail fruiterer. Possiblv ...

... blossoms which may be regarded from the average date of their opening, to be the wild flowers of this week. You can see the blackberry bramble, wreathing all the hedges with honeyed promise of Autumn's abundant fruit ; the milfoil or yarrow, spreading} clustered ...