... it is not yet too late for housekeepers to lay up stores ' of home-made preserves likely to be useful during the winter. Blackberries, many women think, are not worth the full weight of the sugar necessary, and the I consequence of stinting the quantity ...

... of town, and as dusk tell it was wonderful to see the thousands thronging homeward laden with autumn of the hedgerows. Blackberrying. hoppi,igs, and nutting would seem to hale been the Sunday occupation of half the inhabitants of this week-cud, for dearly ...

... breadly strong soils are better adapted for the morn weakly growing bushes and lighter lands for the rampant grow.s, such as blackberries and raspberries. It i undysirable to la the growl between the buslta be ccvcrd with ;pass, as ought to be regt.larly Oac ...

... keeping of the top open by removing crowded !imbe and such misplaced ones as coolie the head or rub againd other branches. Blackberries. —lt is very iimorttut to pinch the tops of the canes as as tlit y become from 18 to 24 inches high in sununcr. The old ...

... distilling. They made preserves, the very names of which are now hardly remembered, and many homely growths were turned to wine—blackberry wine, rhubarb wine, currant wine, elderberry wine, cowslip wine: there was no end to the homely vintages. Then was a gooseberry ...

... the good old days when England ions Merrie England. A Splendid Ball. Brilliant social gatherings are as plentiful as blackberries in town, and it is impossible to record a tithe of the gay doings of society just now. Every society hostess is giving ...

... In the adver,ise',sent columns of a well-known journal this week I read Board•residenee. Ilonie-grown vegetables. nut., blackberries. mushrooms, crab-apple jell•. A most ridiculous outburst for late September. but indicative of the frame of mind of the ...

... without sugar that there is no excuse for letting the glorious plum crop go to waste; and the same may be said of the homely blackberry, that gives as much joy in the gathering as in the cooking or preserving. The poor little French children are denied the ...

... for ganilers—gooseberries; for muffsmulberries; for bill iliscouniers—dewberries; for topers—barberries; for niggers —blackberries; for isorndealers—strawberri , •s: for newsboys--whortle (wsr tell) berries; for girls and boys—holly (day) berries. ( ...

... not to neglect to garner the harvest of the fields and hedges which Nature has given this year with such a prodigal hand. Blackberries, crab-apples. and sloes will make delectable dishes in the winter ahead if gathered 110 and preserved—not necessarily as ...

... artificial fertilizers rich in notash arc preferable to farmyard manure, which is ant to induce 'on vigorous dens-growth. Blackberries, ar• usually into-wood by root cuttings or mockers. Planting a hest effected i n m o n , an d 3 feet apart in TOW% 8 feet ...

... the average duration of life is certainly much longer than in lees favoured localities. Octogenarians are as plentiful as blackberries in September, and men continue to he bale and hearty long after the allotted span is past. When a man reaches the age of ...