... cratur, that bores its head into the grisert berries, and eats the vera heart oot o' them. So it is in many gardens ; the blackberries and the gooseberries will be an almost complete failure. But for the ravages of the green fly, red currants would have ...

... all the people giving themselves up to celebrate the happy event in some form or ang,ther. Flags were as plentiful as blackberries. No house, hardly without exception, was without one, ranging from the simplest bannerette to the most elaborate decoration ...

... instead of sugar for almost every kind of cooking as pleasant for the plate as eat is healthy for the stomach. In preparing blackberry, raspberry, or strawberry shortcake, it is infinitely superior. It is a common expression that honey is a luxury, havin ...

... other lines. BLACK A COLOUR FOR FOOD.—Cultivated society (says the Teleffraph) shudders at the idea of black podding.. Blackberries are sombre enough in their natural state, but they cook crimson ; while Spanish liquorice, although black in the concrete ...

... plantation of strawberries should be made every second year, the old one standing until the new one begins to bear well. Blackberries pay in some plsoes,but the instances are so fewand far between that it is hardly worth while to risk any money or space ...

... • type of what • high military officer ought to be, while naval, military, and volunteer uniforms were as plentiful as blackberries. There were eleven hundred guests. PRESENTATIONS AT COURT. It is understood (says the Illustrated London News) that certain ...

... this age of grinding competition. The peu must be superseded by the type-writer. Type-written letters are now AS common as blackberries, and those written with a pen will soon be treasured se curiosities. Mr .lames Payn, the well-known novelist, has discarded ...

... breasts abundant provision for the birds. The seed of the heather and the bilberry, the mount ida, or whortleberry, the blackberry, the cranberry, the blaeberry, the crowberry, and the juniper fruits, all these are the food of the birds in the winter ...

... was in holding his own views. The Church is strong in East Aberdeenshire. Liberal Churchmen are as plentiful there as blackberries in June. They need to be spoken to smoothly when making up their minds as to whether they will vote for their politics ...

... wife looking her very best. Beauty unadorned is all very well in its way, but even a Venus—and Venues do not grow on every blackberry bushcannot afford to dress dowdily. A wife's carelessnese of her personal appearance has frequently proved the marring of ...

... Aberlour. Best Hand Bouquet of Flowers by Girl- Miss H. Watt, 35, Church Street. Best Hand Bouquet -M. Morrison. Best Pint Blackberries-1 and 2 H. M'Combie. Best Collection of Wild Flowers by Child. ren under Fourteen -1 Bells. Mackintosh, Tower, Dufftown ...

... invariably get the last week of September or the first of October. The crops have been gathered, the fruit stored, and the lush blackberries hang thick on the brambles. Yesterday, the vegetation was as summer left it ; to-day, owing to a night's frost, the bareness ...