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AGRICULTURE and the GARDEN

... Tread round each plant firmly, all stase dards should be staked and tied at omoe. BLACKBERRIES IN THE G arpex.—Country residents who can go out cld‘nlkr all tht blackberries they like from tields ané hedgerows necd not bother their heads ca taks up room ...

CHAPTER XIIL

... tell me what that bush is over there.” “Wild rose,” | answered promptly. “Wild rose, your grandmother,” he replied, “it's a blackberry.” “All right I'll take you for a sovereign.” And getting \:r I strolled towards it. Then, slipping round the patch of bushes ...

BLACKEERRYING IN WASHINGBOROUGH PITS. Amusing Sequc—lr ia the Police Courst

... pleaded not_guilty. 2 W’Fn‘f linton eaid on the Gth September the defoudant came to bhim and .AJ'A d permission to gather blackberries in the pits, but he refusad, and deiendant replied, “1 zm not one of your fancy women, or elee 1 could go in.” “Mr, Coupland ...

)y W. de Alden 1n bis r of ~Bikby's Q

... “ A Counsel of Uprightness,” and * Aunt Patty's Payiug Guest.” I'be complete slorics are “ Nanee,” and “ In the time of Blackberries.” Articles which will be peruscd with interest aund rrcfi? are *“ A new proiession for girls,” “The Hosebids ot Eagiand ...

THE FEARS OF SECULARISM, Sep-Deax Leexe's Vivws,

... cannot supply in the future the thousands and thousands of earnestly religious teacherg which there are in the country like black“berries on the hedges. Can they pot be created in _the Churches and the Sunday Schools:—Yes, but the teaching profession is the ...

ABUNDANT JAM SEASON,

... n~Rlv¢rriu eels a limit to the production to that kind of 'vm. and the great latour and time involved hs the plucking of blackberries causes a smali ontput of that kind. Ciooseberrios are fairly plentiful, and greengages and piums imported from the Continent ...

CHAPTER VIL

... unsewn, and 8 tuft of locks protruding, her bare arms and aeck tanned to a rich mahogany, her pinafore s rag. stained with blackberries. In this condition she was suddenly laid hands on by a smart lady’s maid—a completo stranger-—wha hustied her just us she ...

DISAPPOINTING BLACKBERRY CROP,

... DISAPPOINTING BLACKBERRY CROP, T'here can be po doubt that the blackberry crop this season will be a -liu&mnmg one. ‘That in hKent the yield wil thin s admitted b; the cottagers who express an opinion. The quality of the berries will be under the average ...

PLENTY OF BLACKBERRIES

... PLENTY OF BLACKBERRIES. Blackberries will be on the market in ll.nothn uo:.‘ Covent &u«&: oluh o rge crop this year, a w open from 14d. to 24. per Ib. The ‘llk of the blackberries come from Buckinghamshire and Berkshire and from the borders of Kent ...

THE PASSING OF SUMMER

... are Jark and dali, new hues are creeping over the thickets, and the hedgebanks are dusty and untidy Seldom has been such a blackberry crap as is beginning to ripen on the hedges now. T'o gather twenty-four Lints. however, woull be a toilsome uadertaking ...

AGRICULTURE and the GARDEN

... Tuoven blackberries are wild and looked upon mostly as common property, they play an important part in the commercal fruit industry of the country. and once more the harvest has begun. Suice less attention has been paid to hedges blackberries have flourished ...

SLEAFORD POLICE COURT

... the side of the road. He waited about a quarter of an hour, and then found the hoy, who was in charge of them, gathering blackberries, some 200 or 300 yards away, flnlu- hid from view. They were two or three miles from defendant’s farm —Defendant said he ...