... Association. DELPHI.-Lessee and Manager, Otho Fully ripe and of excellent flavour, a basket of A Stuart. TO-NICHT, A_CTING. blackberries picked near Ilfracombe reached a West Sir Edward Carson will be the guest of the even- WEDNESDAY and at 2.0. End fruitcrer ...

... last year it was 50 as late as December 29. The mild, open weather has produced the usual eccentricities of nature. Ripe blackberries have been picked in Devonshire and primroses plucked in Cornwall. Thrushes have been beguiled into .giving encores of their ...

... The former hit the hedge and crashed through it into a pond on the other side. The latter was not so fortunate. A large blackberry bush broke the force of his fall, or he must have been killed on the spot. As it was, he lay stunned and motionless, face ...

... are liked by many people. If the bought qualities are not preferred this recipe will give you raspberry, strawberry, or blackberry syrup of the best kind. Pour a quart of vinegar over two quarts of the berries, cover them with a cloth or lid and let the ...

... likely to remain for a time, and the only consolation is that yesterday's rain will probably bring about a record crop of blackberries in a few weeks' time. ...

... s, for instance, harbour a thousand evils in the form of bacteria, as well as raspberries, currants, gooseberries, and blackberries. Not a summer passes but many hundreds of people are poisoned by eating raw fruit. Fruits that grow in the country ...

... said to have been granted by King Alfred of Northumbria. Climbing down an embankment of the Manchester Ship Canal after blackberries, yesterday, a Latchford boy of nine endeavoured to reach a bottle floating on the water, but fell in and was drowned. Depressed ...

... 's Pollington Colliery (Derbyshire), having been suffocated by the fumes. Large numbers of persons enjoyed themselves blackberrying on Wimbledon Common yesterday, the fruit being in abundance this year, and hundreds of housewives took supplies home in ...

... posts nailed roughly together look much prettier. A short pergola leading to the orchard is to-day heavily laden with ripe blackberries, making a novel and delightful picture. Hard by the ex• quisite wild English clematis (traveller's joy, or old man's beard) ...

... Office nature points to the same thing in every hedgerow. Blackberry Famine Expected. Everybody knows the saying that Many berries make a hard winter. In all probability there will be a blackberry famine this year, so that the winter should be very mild ...

... APPLE FOOL AND BLACKBERRY. Blackberries are a fruit very generally liked, though some people very much object to the seeds in them, so this recipe may not be welcomed by all. To make the fed take each of black- The virtues of the famous Kriischen Mineral ...

... BLACKBERRY JELLY INGREDIENTS :-Eight pounds of blackberrie., cue quart of water ; to each pint of juice allow threequarters of a pound of loaf sugar. Stalk and carefully look over the blackberries. Put them in the preserving pan with the water, and cook ...