... herself to be a very shrewd organiser, and at the end of a year there was £ll in hand, largely because she had made the jam (blackberry) herself. An in creased demand for beds resulted in an appeal being made among Cambridge residents, and a sum of £200 a ...

... calling on all the energy and initiative of young and old. We can and jam the spare fruit, not forgetting bilberries and blackberries, of which we hope to reach the 50-lb. mark in cans and jam jars. We jam and bottle plums of strawberries and raspberries ...

... storing is primitive, and the need this year vital indeed. Especially pleasing are the harvests of nature's free gifts blackberries, nuts, fir cones and firewood. Next in order of delight come special war provisions the collection of seeds for feeding ...

... jammed and guzzled and bottled 'em, and now we are stripped for action among the plum-trees, green gages, apple-trees and blackberries. And the stoutest heart quails at the prospect. How shall we dispose of all this undreamed-of wealth from long barren, ...

... Memory nods while kings ride by in pomp and thrills, with an interest that imprints and colours every detail, to pluck a few blackberries in the lane. The great moments of my uneventful life are listed (in the conventional manner) but not illustrated. The first ...

... nature cannot be hurried, and it is only the result of years of study that next summer, for the first time, huge thoraless blackberries with fruit r-inch in diameter will be gathered on a commercial scale in this country. It is, in fact, a cross between a ...

... primroses, the purple foxgloves, the ripening pears and apples, the pink of the roses and the white flowers of the late-blooming blackberry bushes. There, is not a sound except for a small stream, a cock crowing, and the buzz of a bee which has just cut out. Now ...

... twenty-two kills to his credit, seen with his batman as he surrenders the historic wastes of this once-busy aerodrome to blackberry-pickers and three Waafs who are off for a game of tennis A DEMOBILISATION PROBLEM How to get back to peacetime employment ...

... seems to me-- in this district, at any rate some thing confined to nuts. This year has been a most magnificent year for blackberries: it is many years since I have seen such a profusion of magnificent fruit. A few years ago there would have been tough ...

... Sewing Yarrow. Hoppity Speedwell. Jacob's Ladder Solomon's Seal Jews' Whips Broom. (Why Kiss Me Primrose. Ladies' Garters Blackberry. Lavender Snips Yellow Toadflax. Lords and Ladies Arum. (The Ladies have pale-coloured clubs: the Lords dark ones.) Lousy ...

... rooms, blackberries from door to door. Everything that grew was grist to his mill: and he knew where everything grew. Again, it sounds simple: but it meant much walking and much hard work. For example, he would pick 20 pounds and more of blackberries in a ...

... heights of the peninsula you find yourself first passing between hedgerows that are heavy with cow parsley and a-tangle with blackberry bushes, then entering a forest that is as deep and green and cool as anything the Home Counties have to offer. This marvellous ...