... BLACKBERRY Many of the American blackberrife are excel lent fruit; Strung, well &tined clay soli are but the planta thrive almost anywhere. Where poiaible, a le a uitablv. On good roils no manure is needed until the phynts are in bearing, and then artificial ...

... BLACKBERRY SPONGE. Ingredients.-1 lb. cooking apples, 1 lb. blackberries, 6 oz. sugar, 21 oz. butter, 2i oz. sugar, 5 oz. flour, 1 small teaspoonful baking powder, 1 egg, a little mik. Method.--Peel, core and slice the apples and stew gently until tender ...

... AUSTRALIAN BLACKBERRIES. The blackberry thrivm more luxuriantly in Australia than in Lurope or Amens. its growth being so r.t.pid that in army places it is regarded as an In tome local:tied, icever, the settlers and their fianiliee gather the fruit in ...

... BLACKBERRY JAN. Secure be fruit as large and ripe a- possible, wash it in clean, cold water (if smoked or dirty), pick carefully from stalks, then weigh. and to each pound of fruit allow one p beet cano sugar. Use one pint of some sort of fruit juice ...

... BLACKBERRY SYRCP. Required: Six quarts of blackberries, brown. sugar, water. Method( Remove stalks f blackberries, which must be very ripe. but sound. Put into a large jar, bruise lightly with a wooden spoon, and place the jar in a cool oven. Bring to ...

... Blackberries Preserved THIS happens to be a very good blackberry year, so to make up the deficiencies of the other fruits, you can go in for bottling and preserving blackberries in a big way. They are delicious used for tarts, puddings and pies all through ...

... BLACKBERRY JAM. every pound of blackberries a pound of sugar and the titiee of half a lemon. Place the lirries in a pan with the le mon Awe and a very little water. Simmer gently till the fruit is cooked. the warmed sugar. stir until dissolved, bring ...

... NOTES ON BLACKBERRIES. Cultivated blackberries produce excellent crone under favourable conditions but they must have a soil rich enough in humus to hold abundant moisture, which is so important as the weather becomes hotter. Very shallow surface tillage ...

... BLACKBERRY CORDIAL Stew the blackberries until tender, then strain, and to every pint of juice add 11b. of loaf sugar, aoz. of cinnamon. and each of mace end cloves. Place the mixture in a lined saucepan on the fire, and after it has boiled for twenty ...

... MANURING BLACKBERRIES. On good 'toile no manure will he until the plante are in bearing; and then artificial fertiliscra, rich in potash, are preferable to farmyard manure, which is apt to indue too vigorous mane growth. ...

... BLACKBERRIES BY OTHER NAMES. Blackberries, which we are to buy at 4d a lb. —if the jam maker; leave us any—would no doubt taste as sweet under any of their names If you want to puazle the greengrocer (says the Daily Express ') you might ask him if he ...

... SOME BLACKBERRY DISHES. BLACK aaaaa Jattr.—Extract the juice from ripe blackberries by placing them in a jar and standing thz jar in a pan of fast-boiling water. Drain off the juice u it flows, until the blackberries are quite dry. Measure the juice, ...