... gathering of blackberries for Liverpool and Manchester markets now provides profitable occupation for the country people in Cheshire, whence enormous quantities are being sent away. A mother and three children will earn 10s. and 12s. weekly by blackberry picking ...

... so great a number of half-pay officers had been attracted from India that generals, colonels, and majors were plentiful blackberries. As evidence of the low price of necessaries, lie quoted the current price of mutton at fourpence Imlfpenny per pound. ...

... green to the reddened brown one that shows tender tints of fading,* the plant, was displayed. another the pearly story the blackberry was told in the feme realistic fashion* summing the whole tale in glance, defiant of chronology. The hats were chiefly large ...

... get rid them by cutting off tbe part above the surface. In Sussex, on the Hastings sand formation. Brambles of the common Blackberry spring up ao thickly that see ouoe bad several waggon leads cleared off few acres old neglected pasture. In Suffolk, Ononis ...

... of corn and pampas grass, with a choice selection of fruit and vegetables at the foot ; centred with a basket containing blackberries. This was the careful handiwork of Mrs. Me Laughlin. The decoration of the font was entrusted to Mim Tucker, who, with ...

... n ) I not remember a year when the hedgerows in the country presented a prettier appearance. The hawthorns, wild roses, blackberries, and all the other berry-bearing trees and bushes are literally laden with their fruit, and promise ample provision for ...

... agn culturists is, to go in for cultivating mushrooms and blackberries. What a prospe t for the country children ! Fancy every mushroom-meadow to the early rural rambler, and all the blackberries strictly •‘preserved,’* in the m se of partridges, not of ...

... how early the little lads ceased to eat the bread of idleness. The smallest of them would be sent to gather mushrooms and blackberries. They were soon fitted out with dinner satchel and a pair of clappers, and sent to scare the birds from the newly-sown ...

... Flowers and Fruit in December.— Mr. Charles Bnllocke, watchmaker, Arwenack Street, gathered on Monday last a quantity of ripe blackberries, a large strawberry also ripe, and choice bnnoh of primroses—all from the hedgerows of Hawnan. Falmouth Harbour Board.— ...

... grafted low down, and carefully grown, these soon become very handsome objects. Blackberries. —Some may laugh at the idea of cultivating such common thing as the blackberry ; our American cousins, however, who arc far more wide-a-wake than we are in good ...

... , boweaer, tin te ewallowad the bat menthfuL Then te pushed the empty Ua away and •aid ; “ I wouldn’t give a cent (or a blackberry pia.' Tide true etory is aot etraage one at all. Maay boy thinks that if ha only had a maa'e liberty te would be happy; ...

... returned an open verdict. I knew that two or three men had been arrested. The name of Dwyer in Limerick was plentiful as blackberries in autumn. (Laughter) I knew that the names of the men who were supposed to have committed the murder would be published ...