... in casks to ferment, are said to produce an excellent wine. The colour of wine is often rendered darker by a mixture of blackberries with the grapes.—Louden's Gardener's Maga- zine. CHANGB OF TIMES.—About the middle of the Seventeenth century, persons ...

... SITTING HENS.—Farmers' wives of the old school say, that hens should never be allowed to sit during the season that the blackberry is in blossom. There is an old saw to the same effect which runs thus Between the sickle and the scythe, What you rear ...

... and alleys leading froin St. Mary- treet, in all of which places he will rind. dangerousBt idisances'* as plentiful- as blackberries are in Autumn Nti ?or what he has done, aud for the effective manner inflT vhich he has accomplished his unpleasant task ...

... Eng- land, and that Liverpool and Manchester are each among the places to which a new Bishop will be appointed. BLACKBERRY JELLY.—Blackberries (which are now in season) make a delicious jelly of finer flavour than that of any other fruit. It is made in ...

... Richards, wife of John Richards, of Aberkenfig, said: On Monday, the 14th September, I was in M.ry John's field, gathering blackberries. I saw a sheepskin in the hedge; it was covered over. The head was on. I informed Mary John, and went with her and helped ...

... gets his full shure. In autumn. independently of the corn fields, he can gain an honest sub- sistence by frequenting the blackberry, wild raspberry, or dewberryi In winter he revels in the seldom-failing beech htast, diversifying the regimen occasionally ...

... the assistance of two large sonp- turcens,- the numerous dishes were all displayed- We had among other luxuries, fresh blackberries and bon-bons, the latter were r.ther dry, and had, no doubt, travelled far Each, man had a tnree-pronged fork, and a regular ...

... letter a thousand miles fora penny, and hay a week's reading for twolo nee. We poblish beaks taster than brambles bear blackberries, and presince plays as fast as the French write them. We can fuel paupers ninepence halfpenny a.day. not artificial grave-yards ...

... about two o'clock in the afternoon of the above-named day, and took his way, it is supposed, towards the river In search of blackberries. His parents, missing his presence at tea, went round the village in search of him, but failed to see or to hear any account ...

... fire-place, and, while the yule-log blazed bright and cheerily, told Christmas stories, in which ghosts were as plentiful as blackberries. III one tale that was then told, the hpro belonged to a family in which insanity was hereditary (and as is commonly the ...

... gin- palace like a bad shilling? I can't tell, my son. Because you can't pass it, said the boy. Life is a tield of blackberry bushes mean people squat down and pick up the fruit, DO matter how they black their fingers; while genius, proud and pe ...

... published in a periodical, and then forgotten with all convenient speed and with regard to essays, which are numerous as blackberries, the best of the small ones may shine for a month in a local publication, while the large ones are seldom published at ...