... it is not yet too late for housekeepers to lay up stores ' of home-made preserves likely to be useful during the winter. Blackberries, many women think, are not worth the full weight of the sugar necessary, and the I consequence of stinting the quantity ...

... quiet meal. Deep in the contents their nosebags, they seemed scarcely to notice a li.t.le bird perched upon a gay-coloured blackberry branch which trailed across the fence beside them. But the little songster sang on, a merry joyous strain, making music ...

... CLARA'S LESSON. One day in autumn Clara was blackberrying in a country field, when her dress caught on a brier and was torn. When she returned home her mother told her to mend it. Clara, not thinking of the rule which says A stitch in time saves nine ...

... saucer of blackberries. The visitor stopped about three fe•e•t away from Kittle, and, turning his black head from side to side, looked at her as if he• were wondering if it would sate to get any closer. Kitts• efrop-p•d a large blackberry on th' stone ...

... generally effective. as is whitewashing the bushes in autumn with 2 lbs. of quicklime to one gallon aster. Blackberries. —Many of the American blackberrie• are excellent fruits. Strong, well drained clay soils are best, but the plants thrive almost anyehe-s ...

... s clustered cups. Now, midway between these 'great feasts of the growing and the waning year, comes the festival of the blackberry lowers; and the entomologists kuow that it is of little use to tempt the moths with sugar so Ling as tile bramble is in ...

... THE LITTLE WHISTLE. They were picking blackberries on the western slope of the old pasture. and Benny had a small tin pail tied to his belt. He was not picking many berries, and those he found soon went to his mouth: but Katy and Helen were industriously ...

... thumped it. It was one of the daughters of the minister. an extremely beautiful girl of seventeen, with whom he went on blackberrying expeditions. who produced the remark above quoted. Walworth Station occupies, too, the site of the Beresford parsonage ...

... of the top open by removing eroaded limbs and such misplaced ones as nom the head or rub against other branches. Pruning Blackberries.—lt is very i nportain to pinch off the tops of the causes as soon as they become from 18 to 24 inahe-6 high in summer ...

... profitable until from 25 to 40 years of age. A mature tree averages 25 to 40 bushels of fruit every alternate year. Blackberries.—Blackberry plantation. usually remain profitable from five to ten years longer than raspberries. The average yield under good ...

... nir : 41 placed ones as cro,a th e head or rub against, other D. B. Yarnell, a J. Sturrook, b Muirhead 12 branches. Blackberries.—lt is very important to pinch off J. J. Canwron, b Rain swor th 16 the tops of canes as soon as they become from 18 ...

... We'd lie on the ground in the summer time And melt and melt and melt. It the world was a field of gold Ind the gold was blackberry pie. We'd save up our pennies in autumn time And buy and buy and buy. If all the world were blade. , of grass And all the ...