... TOWNS. Blackberry picking is a popular pastime. Toward the end of the summer families will be returning from the hunt'. Weary and worn, with scratched hands and torn clothes and tempers, they carry in their baskets sm-11 quantities of red blackberries. Father ...

... the brambles. Blackberries, and the hybrids—blackberries and raspberries crossed 'and recrossed, will flourish almost anywhere, and in partial shade and full sunshine, and . in rough ground dug but one spade deep, .. .. THE BLACKBERRIES. Dear fruit has ...

... staid Salem s few years ago. W a congratulated him that the then standstill city was to secure one or two manufactinn TRH BLACKBERRY PIE, ing establishments, with the prospect of growth from The following story reaches .ne from America, but the enterprise ...

... the blackberry ; our American cousins, however, who are far more wide-a-wake than we are in a good many points, do so, and have their named varieties—L.awsons, iiittatinnies, Wilson Juniors, and so forth, and why sh old we? A well-made blackberry pudding ...

... anecdote of the Warrenton Rifle Corps. One day he told us that a countryman had come into camp with a quantity of blackberry pies. Blackberries in America are a much finer fruit than those ripened by our faint English sun, and are quite popular in their ...

... Leioester Infirmary, where she died soon after, without having recovered oonsoiousness. In her pockets were found some blackberries, with two shillings and eightpenoe, but nothing whatever which would serve to identify her. It has not been disoovered ...

... crops instead of in the production of gross leaf shoots. Too vigorous a tree is not a fruitful one. Hybrid Bramble Berries.—Blackberries and raspberries have been used to make the hybrid bramble berries with the quality of the latter and the constitution of ...

... hurrying, trampling feet Of sun-browned happy children go To pluck the treasures from off the hedge, Where the sweet ripe blackberries grow. And in their frolic, they trample down The lingering trophies of sunned pride Left in the tangled wilderness, And ...

... A Novel Swimming Match. Men who can swim their half-dozen miles in the Thames are as plentiful as blackberries. Not long since Walker, a north country swimmer, swam from London-bridge to Greenwich, a distance of 5 miles 300 yards, in an hour, and very ...

... cottager is busy in - the woods harvesting logs and branches and even twigs to supplement winter fuel. In the gathering of blackberries, mushrooms and nuts, the cottager has now very often to share his harvest with the motor picnic parties, who, thanks to ...

... people had the effect of 'demoralising' almost everybody else who had anything to sell, from a string of perch to a quart of blackberries or a barrel of flour.' REGULATION DRESS. —The Sunday Gazette publishes some remarkable regulations as to dress which have ...

... You will find them in thecduntty lanes around Tinune and in many other parts of OxfOrdshire, growing quite close ,to the blackberries that hang so temptingly from the' ._briars, or cheekby jowl with the purple - 11ms; Often these poison plants hang their ...