... 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. I know a spot where the ripe fruit hangs, Luscious and black as sloe, Below the stream, round the hazel-copes ...

... 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 ...

... TEMPTED. A little girl was one day picking blackberries in the garden when her mother came out and said to her. Now, didn't I tell vou .not to pick the blackberries. Yes. replied the little girl, but I was tempted. But I told you to say. 'Get thee ...

... To WIND.—Mx %wens or blackberries, three gallons et water, 6lb brown sugar, 31b. chopped raisins, los. main 'lawn dissolved is • little eider. Crush the blackberries with a wooden spoon, and boil the water with the sugar for 15 minutes skimming well. ...

... •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 ...