... the country; crab-apples have been relatively much heavier than cultivated apples; dog-hips, quite a (fair average ; but blackberries very scanty. The sixth land (last Held meeting for the season of the (Natural History Society Northumberland, Durham, and ...

... sma3l hollow in the ground near the trunk of one the oldest apple-trees, where the grass tall, and where there were some blackberry briers, aud there she decided make nest. First she lined all smoothly with the long grass, and then inside that she put ...

... Conway Heudescn, speaking the prevention of disease, [mentioned that cases diphtheria had been caused iu Ireland bv eating black-berries. The state some of the drains in Ireland, she remarked, did not make that fact surprising. Here are two poems by Berwickshire ...

... Trotter; Mrs R. Weatherston. Best Jam Sandwich Cake (by a Friend)— Miss Huntly; Miss A. Huntly : Mrs* J. Trotter. •1 lb. Pot Blackberry Jam (by Mrs R. Fairbairn)—(Miss Wood: Mrs C. Baxter. • 'Most points in Industrial Claeses Mrs J. Trotter 19 points. FLOWER ...

... over the iron roof a low shed, and last year, I was told, bore 11 lbs. of excellent fruit. In the Midlands (though wild blackberries are there much more plentiful than with us) they are more often cultivated, and I remember a garden where most of the hedges ...

... since vanished circumstance much to lie regretted since mediaeval church bells, on the Scottish border, are not common blackberries. If the bell itself be lost, one is glad to know that rubbing of the dnscripition has been preserved in the department ...

... savoys, kales, cabbage, cauliflower, late celery, and leeks 3. To bottle all fruit plums, damson, and bvrih fruit, including blackberries. Bottle rhubarb; store .apples cool place, not too dry but not damp, else they aval] shrivel. On the invitation of the ...

... them and seal the tops with sealing or bottle wax. Remember boil the water gradually. Store the tottles any cool place. Blackberries can l>e preserved with smaller quantivy of sugar than other fruit. Fruit may be preserved without sugar the following ...

... weather, good crop likely secured, there is a good appearance of fruit the canes. A commencement has been made with the blackberries, which are also looking well. Picking likely to be 3 weeks later than last season. Saturday, Mr Ritchie, Kimmcrgihaine ...

... and dirty, bis bat was torn, and his feet were bar© But he had pleasant face. In one hand he carried pail hakf-fuU o:f blackberries. “ away from here,” said John, rmiming to the gate. “We don’t want ragged boys around.” “ Please give drink,” said the ...

... 'lottling• fruit without sugar. . simple home use the. following method i excellent one, and may be used for plum apples, or blackberries, or, indeed .an i|bt, large or small. Choose dry firm fruit Tipe. Fill the bottles up to the neck wit *t—three pound glass ...

... fruit without sugar. . or simple home use the. following method is excellent one, and may be used for plums, apples, or blackberries, or, indeed,any large or small. Choose dry firm fruit mot Fill the bottles up to the neck with i —three pound glass jam ...