... BLACKBERRIES. What a profusion of blackberries we are promised this autumn. In the old days, when cause and effect were not well discriminated between, country folk were wont to say that a prolific harvest of hips and haws and wild berries was the sure ...

... BLACKBERRIES Real ripe blackberries have been picked this week on the slope of Essex Farm, facing the Catel Harbour. This is quite unusual for the time of year. ...

... Blackberrying EXCURSION TO SARK. On MONDAY NEXT, Sept. 16th, leaving Guernsey at 7 a.m. Tickets, of which there are only a limited number : Adults, Is. 9. Children Is. To be obtained at Mrs. Brehaut, Belgrave ; Mr. Carey, Half-way ; Mr. Camber, chemist ...

... BLACKBERRYING. In mid-September, and right onward for a month or so, the hedgerows are vocal with the eries and prattle of the children who are blackberrying. Now and then one hears exclamatiions of delight when some particularly fruitful bush is discovered; ...

... BLACKBERRY CULTURE. The cnlture of the blackberry will undoubtecly receive much attention ia the mear future from Eng ish f uit-growers, and when we copsider the macner in hich the fruit sells is not to be won:cred at. Blackbersy cu ture offers good scope ...

... BLACKBERRY CULTURE. Our fruit growers may gather a profitable hint from the following paragraph which we cull from a London contemporary : — A new rural industry is being opened up in Kent —namely, the cultivation of blackberries for profit. Enormous ...

... BLACKBERRIES AND SLOES. Notwithstanding the frequent rains quantities of blackberries and sloes are still to be found. Usually towards the end of October there are gc\v left worth gathering. People remark the abnormu. sbundance and finencss of the berries ...

... GARDEN BLACKBERRIES. There yet remains another class of Rasp- berries, or i Blackberries, to be noticed. These, though known in England as Rasp- berries, obviously partake more of the charac- ter of Blackberries or Brambles. The oldest and best known ...

... RASPBERRILS AND BLACKBERRIES. S b One of the greatest evils attending the cultivation ot the raspberry is db? ging or stirring the surtace soil. No greater mistake can be made than to suppose that such a practise should be snnually adopt:d. Heing a surfice ...

... BLACKBERRIES FROM SARK. We have received a sprig bearing half-a-dozen ripe blackberries and a letter from Mr. J. Carré, of Beau Sejour, Sark, who writes that he picked this sprig of blackberries from the hedge of one of his fields. The blackberries afford ...

... MONEY FROM BLACKBERRIES. The *“ Market Growers’ Gazette” says:-—The statement that * there is an enormous crop of Blackberries in the Isle of Man,” reminds a correspondent that in some parts of the West Riding. notably in the Clapham, Ingleton, and Bentham ...

... KILLED WHILE BLACKBERRYING. [ At Sussex Assizes to-day, Albert Rumens, 44, farm labourer, was indict“ed for the murder of Mabel Ann Mary‘an, aged 10, at Wadhurst on Septem‘ber 16. The prosecution alleged that deceased went blackberrying and was overtaken ...