... AMERICAN BLACKBERRIES. The cultivated American blackberries yield large crops of most useful berries, and are well worth cultivation in every garden that has room for them. They will grow in almost all soils, provided they are cool and moisture-retaining; ...

... NOTES ON BLACKBERRIES. Cultivated blackberries produce excellent crops under favourable conditions but they must have a soil rich enough in humus to hold abundant. moisture, which is so important as the weather becomes hotter. Very shallow surface tillage ...

... BLACKBERRIES FOR PROFIT. Professor Bailey says of the improved forms of blackberries that there is no bush fruit which is capable of yielding greater profit, but his observation relates only to plants that are properly eared for. Neglected blackberries ...

... BLACKBERRY CORDIAL. Stew the blackberrie, until tender, then strain, end to every pint of juice add llb. of loaf sugar, ioz. of cinnamon, and each of mace end clove. Place the rni‘ture in a lined saucepan on the fire, and after it has boiled for twenty ...

... angelica. Serve cold. BLACKBERRY AND APPLE lAN.—Blackberry jam is greatly improved by the addition of some sharply Savoured apples. Allow half a pound of apples to every pound of blackberries. Remove the stalks from the blackberries; peel, core, and cut ...

... TO MAKE BLACKBERRY AND APPLE JAR. Take equal parts of blackberries and apple, latter peeled, cored, and sliced. Allow ilb. crushed white sugar to every pound of fruit. Set over a slow fire, stirring with a wooden spoon to pieces burning at first, before ...

... •KBERRY CULTURE. Many of the American blackberries ale esc•ellent fruits. Strong, well-drained clay soils are best, hut the plants thrive almost anywhere. Where possible, a cool exposure :s desirable. good soils no manure will be needed until the plants ...

... weather is the great enemy of blackberries, eo that in many seasons cultivation of the surface soil to conserve soilmoisture is neoesaary. In moist situations and set years tillage may induce too much wood growth. Blackberries, like other fruits, must be ...

... EXCUSE. Two small boys, brothers, whose ages were seven and five respectively, and who were named Arthur and Freddie, were blackberrying the other day with their mother. As was likely with children of that age, more t lackberries found their way into their ...

... aintbing. •• might go blackberrying. said Ronald. ••We can do that any time. replied Elsie. We don't want to pick blackberries all day ! 'th at would be no fun. _ . I saw an old man to-day, said their mother. trying to get blackberries. H. was so crippled ...

... crossing the Loganberry and common blackberry. and is much like the former in growth, habit, and size of fruit. The berries are borne in bunches like logan berries, but are et black when ripe, and have the true blackberry flavour. The plant is a very strong ...

... then artificial fertiliaegs rich in potash are preferable to farmyard manure, whir& apt to induce ion vieormw (sem-growth. Blackberries are usually increased by root cuttings or Pucker& Planting. is heat effee•ed in aultunn. and 3 feet apart in rows 9 feet ...