... decorated with fruit and flowers from Capt. g)uncomba’s garden. A special and effective system had been introduced this year of blackberry bramble, which formed an effective addition to the decorations with its clusters of black and red berries. A half holiday ...

... crops in general are very light. Such a backward harvest has not been known for years. The hedgerows and hedges abound with blackberries, sloes, &c., the woods with nuts aud other berries; but owing to the dull wet weather and the absence of sun, a large number ...

... advisability of an attempt to improve the English blackberry by cultivation, and thus to mtroduce to the Old World what would practically be a new and luscious fruit, There is no reason why the blackberry should not be as amenable to the improving treatment ...

... scent of new-mown hay : July then comes with ripening wheat, Garnered 'mid August’s blazing heat ; September’s next with blackberries sweet, Aud slowly-shortening day ; October brings the nutting-time i November gives us fogs and rime ; December rings the ...

... district—just the place for bird-nesting in the spring, for flower-hunting and hay-making in the summer, and for nutting and blackberrying, corn-carrying and apple-gathering in the autumn. In this extremely secluded and thoroughly rural district is a benevolent ...

... commuuion table were the words, ** He filleth the hungry.” The pulpit was tastefully decorated with flowers, moss, ferns, and blackberries. At the south corner of the chancel stood a sheaf of barley. On the reading desk were the words, * Thou openest thine hand ...

... seven years of age, son of Mr. Wm. Crane, clicker, residing in Dyer's End, went out in the Doddington ficlds to gather blackberries, and on his way home he was enticed by another boy to go back. While in the fields they by some means got parted, and the ...

... touched and others lying in the swathes. ‘ Wirp Frumrs.—Nuts are plentiful this season, but | sloes are very scarce. The blackberry bushes look more ] p;ol:ni-ing than last year. There is also an abundance | of haws. ...

... of the font was very effective. The bowl was encircled with moss, interspersed with white and crimson dahlias, rprigs of blackberries, accrns, nuts, and bright coloured berries of all sorts, with trails of ivy hanging down, and sprays of maidenhair fern ...

... property of defendant, and doing damage to the amount of 2s,—P.c. Bayes proved the case.—Defendants said they were only blackberrying.— Fined ss. each, including costs. Paid. SURETY OF THE PEACE. Samuel Chambers, market gardener, Biggleswade, was charged ...

... were some pheasants and hares on Mr. Peet’s and. The defendants denied that they had a gun, but said they were getting blackberries. A previous conviction was put in against Quick. Fined £1 and 9s. 6d. costs. The second charge preferred by Mr. Goosey ...

... surrounding the upper portion, having deftly | worked into it a rare variety of wild and cultivated [ _lnut, from the common blackberry to the luscious grape, in fact every part of the building showed what busy hands, combined with skill and refined taste ...