... AND BLACKBERRIES The September holiday saw the , usual exodus from the town of groups of hopeful berrypiekers. The fruit is plentiful this year and good 'hauls' are reported, but, queries Jemima— Where is the sugar to come from. ...

... BLACKBERRIES. Exposure of picked fruit to hot sunshine impairs its quality in a few minutes. To obtain the finest and best flavoured berries, picking should.be deferred until they are quite ripe. ...

... BLACKBERRIES. No very reliable estimate can be formed as to tbe full value of the crop of blackbeniss an average season in Ireland, but it may be interest to note that in 1906 the e ?““ ® d P?»* from Ireland was 7,5°6 - at and as a consi-letable proportion ...

... them. There are still plenty of hips and haws, and the blackberries are nob yet over. There are still luxuriant trails of berries, red and black, which have not been picked ; but I suppose blackberries are quite, unseasonable now. In regard to this delicious ...

... two reasons why apples and blackberries combine so well in jam and Seely—not only do the flavours blend. but the apples supply the pectin which is lackin; in the blackberries It is pectin which makes Jam set If the blackberries are to be jammed alone ...

... BLACKBERRYING. The blackberrying around ftpal• ding is now in full swing, stud there is said to be plenty of them. The other day I wise walking beside a hedgerow at Pinchbeck, where several children were gathering blackberries. One was such a little toddler ...

... BLACKBERRIES. A little over a week ago Stanley June., the ten•year•olei son of 11r. and Airs. Junes. of sew-road, tilorefsen. Puntardulais, went I.lackberrying with some friends. Mier hie rctiini he complained of a pain in the leg, which began swell, ...

... BLACKBERRIES IN Although mushrooms have this season been failure Cumberland, there is a heavy crop blackberncft, the gathering of which from tliehcdgerows finding employment for large number poor people. The fruit despatched large towns. The gatherers ...

... BLACKBERRIES I am very pleased to notify lily numerous Suppliers that I have received a very favourable report from Holland on the quality of Berries which I have sent them. I have now received a further Contract. As the season is now running late and ...

... BLACKBERRIES. Cultivated blackberries sell well, and can be sent by rail ii picked before they are completely ripened. Care must be taken in packing them, as a single spoiled berry may ruin a whole basket. ...

... BLACKBERRIES Merry Comrades say it is a good year for blackberries. Captain Ann Millard. Grendon. writes that she and her brothers and sisters picked 18 lbs. in two days. Now they have a nice lot of jam. ...

... BLACKBERRIES. The hedgerows will soon be traversed by children in seareh of blackberries and other wild fruit, none of which seems to come amiss to the youthful palate. The blackberry makes a good first, for it is not only abunduut and within easy reach ...