... same dog-fox Ulysses is not proved worth a blackberry. Once more the blackberry is not without its folk-lore, and there is a popular superstition that the Devil always puts his cloven foot upon the blackberries on Michaelmas Day, and on this account it ...

... romances to delight them and pass away the happy hours ? This is the blackberry season. Among the rich and russet autumnal tints stands out prominently the foliage of the blackberry so often used by gardeners in table decoration, but the delight of the ...

... trade might be driven in these wild berries, bringing in money anO pleasure to village folk, for ev ry child loves blackberry jam, and blackberry pudding is food lor the gods when eaten with thick yellow cream. Here is a clear case of wastefulness. Butter ...

... the growers, whq have no har~estingy expenses, or storage-room rent, or any indefinite period to wait for their money. BLACKBERRIES This wild fruit is so plentiful this year by hedgerow and copse and on moor and common, that correspondents are asking ...

... warm weather at the end of August and first fortnight of September. The drawback of blackberry bushes is their attracting trespassers. It may be added that the blackberry responds to cultivation, and we believe that with a little botanical caie the size ...

... I have been urging various people to improve the blackberry by cultivation and grafting, and at last it appears a satisfactory result has been obtained by the union of the raspberry and the blackberry. I have not yet tasted it, nor have I met with anyone ...

... of the lieutenant, who calls out the number of the flags forming the signal he wishes to make. BLACKBERRYING' Our picture with the title Blackberrying takes us into the heart of some lovely English county. Husband and wife with their seven or eig ...

... has not the gift of getting confidences out of other people, nor are interesting specimens such as this one as common as blackberries in September. But the book is so shrewd and alive, it gives so admirably the outlook of the Hooligan, and shows you how ...

... down the ripe fruit. The new blackberry-raspberry which was to startle the markets under the somewhat obsolescent title of The Mahdi has not made its expected splash, but mulberries, which would be bad to beat by any blackberry, however improved, are in ...

... delicate. OCTOBER Irish folklore of the seventeenth century tells us that on Michael- mas Day the devil puts his foot on the blackberries. Let us hope that the brambles do their duty ! The date is clearly old style, as the iith of our present October and the ...

... and are geaerally bad losers. It appears that gardeners have invented a new fruit, a cross between the blackberry and some other berry. The blackberry has been too much neglected except by street urchins ; it can be culti- vated in the garden and will repay ...

... elk and killed him ; here I enjoyed glorious salmon-trout fishing, and thoroughly patronised the famous muilterberries, blackberries, and wild strawberries, but these were all over, and evening chills he- raided the coming winter. I was talking to Ole-the ...