... pickers and buyers come over to gather blackberries. and enterprising Fatglish jaml 'mrunifacturers export to Ireland the same fruit in the form of jam, are the poor people beginning to realise that blackberries are fit to eat; hitherto they left them ...

... oranges. figs, teanarinds. prtnes. mulberries. dates, neotarines and plums may be. included. Pomegrimates, cranberries, blackberries, mono berries, dewberries, raspberries. barberries quinces, peare, wild civwries, and medlars are. astringents. Grapes ...

... What. then, are we to say of our magistrates who have mused publio-howies to epring up through this country as thick ea blackberries in autumn? Why thisthat. perhaps unconsciously, but, ell the saute. most effectively. they are impoverishing it, degrading ...

... pear and the apple are the staple fruits of our sone. Other fruit* are good,' but tramitory. Btrawbarries , gooaeberries. blackberries, are very well, but perish in the using. Cherries. peaohcn, plums, belong to a few brief weeks. They ars the butterflies ...

... meets one at every turn, rejoMed Hope. Al•Cnbe will do it, cried Weracken. exuberantly. if the King's men grew' like blackberries on every bosh! Why, he's a brilliant fellow, Will—tem as steel, as lightning. cool as ice; with the gram of a courtier ...

... dukes and jellies of that name. The fruit is sometimes eaten raw, but it has snore seeds to Use square inch than a dried blackberry, and for that reason is not popular us that shape. The &Ices are found on every table with this, cheese and coffee. and ...

... growth were better by re.con el plentiful rain. Lrery rti , e has its thorn, and the 'motel may I:, ,zOd of such fruits as blackberries ,1 ic rt ipisics. cite., only they ale not rea thorn, but prickles. which strip off nitlt Ue outer bark, while thorns will ...

... cottier with some apple trees growine in his plot. If that were so they need not. fear trespass; apples would be as co on as blackberries. Therefore lie proposed that the occupiers of labourers' cottages should plant at least six apple trees. provided the district ...

... important letter from Faael •:NTERTAINMENT AT GOREY CON- Ihinne Adni.. containing suggestions in WENT. reference to the 'blackberry season will With what joy and delight do the chilalso be comridered. Mr. J. S. Gordon. lien attending the National School ...

... or leas of them. yer none of our hardy fruits is more accommodating as regarda sail and cultivation. It ranks next to the blackberry in that respect. Any soil that sill grow good black currants will grow asupberrien. There are sir rat very general mistakes ...

... coverlet of delicate pink and white petals Lift the trailing sprays on the sunniest banks wed von may find one or two luecions blackberries before the month is out. The early garden fruits ripen to per fection. A delicious aroma hangs over the strawberry beds ...

... tons of bilbent. rrsies Here ias a sub n s Wexfordtitute for the black Ctn..' ra the black currant grows MI freely as the blackberry? Why not take advantage of cireum-' stances? Irish Railway Stations. The &liter of Ireland's Own annottooes a new competition ...