IiOve and Adversity. 
BY MRS. M. J. SMITH. 
I wish thou wert here. I wish that the breeze 
That stirs the green leaves that cling to the bough, 
Could bear thee, and leave thee a guest by my side, 
And the long summer days with thy pi'esence en¬ 
dow. 
I ve so much to tell thee. Some losses and erosses, 
Have fallen to me since we met on the green; 
A heritage given, of sorrow. I borrow 
No trouble save that which is plain to be seem 
•Oh! I have been lonely; have thought of thee, only. 
As one who would lengthen and strengthen the 
chain 
That holds to thy heart, reaching out from my own, 
I ask, could adversity cut it in twain? 
I could lose other friendships, and part with the 
smiles 
A hollow world gives: its favor or frown. 
If love abides with me. true, tender and strong, 
Tis dearer and better than wealth and renown. 
I love thee, I trust thee; else I should despair. 
£ut pride, and my love hath all scorning defied. 
.1 walk as a qneen, sneer and pity between, 
.Since love crowns my tresses and stays by my side. 
Blackberries. 
A New York correspondent of the JV. Y. 
Tribune gives his management of a planta¬ 
tion of Kittatinnys as follows: 
“I laid down my Kittatinnys two seasons 
in this way: First, I collected boards and 
a-ails enough to reach the length of a row; 
then with the help of a man. placed the 
boards one at a time against the bushes at 
about half their height from the ground 
.•and carefully pressed them over to the 
•earth. When the whole row was laid down, 
1 fastened a strong wire to a stake driven 
firmly into the ground at one end of the 
row, stretched it over the bushes, drew it 
taut with a crowbar and fastened it to a 
stake at the other end. With crotched 
sticks I pegged the wire down at intervals, 
ithen took up the boards and laid down the 
;next row in like manner. It was a very 
rapid and easy way of doing the work, but 
thq buds would winter-kill. My plantation 
Is in a very cold and exposed location, there 
was very little snow the last two winters, 
;and the bitter north winds proved too 
much for the half-hardy buds. But this 
-comparatively easy method might answer 
under certain favorable circumstances of 
climate and location. 
Last year I laid down a few rows, bend¬ 
ing the plants lengthwise of the rows, and 
plowed, earth, with a two-horse plow, 
against the rows, and covered by hand all 
vines still exposed. From vines thus cov¬ 
ered I gathered an abundant crop of large, 
delicious berries. This season I have laid 
all my vines down in this way. One ought 
to be clad in buckram or steel armor as a 
protection against the cruel thorns. They 
were more thoroughly ripened, and con¬ 
sequently more vicious than usual, this 
year. 1 gave up the job several times, 
being fairly wild with pain, but after 
spending several days picking out the 
thorns, returned to the charge again and 
again, until all were laid down. As my 
market is a local one, I pick only such ber¬ 
ries as drop at the touch. Superlative ad¬ 
jectives fail to describe the quality of well- 
grown ripe Kittatinnys eaten with sugar 
and cream. Common pickers will not dis¬ 
criminate between those berries which are 
merely black and the ripe ones. If picked 
when the core is still hard and sour, keep¬ 
ing in a dark, cool cellar for a day will 
much improve them.” 
Jelly from Sour Apples. 
Since currants are a rarity, and crab 
apples here superseded them in the con¬ 
struction of jellies, we housewives have 
been perfectly contented with accepting 
them as substitutes, but this year the crab 
apples have not been as abundant or as 
nice as usual, so by the way of experiment 
we tried some very sour appies, to see 
what manner of jelly they would make; 
using them precisely as we did the crab 
apples, only adding to the strained liquor a 
couple of lemons, thinly sliced. When the 
juice was boiled away two-thirds we strain¬ 
ed it through the jelly bag, and to two 
cups of apple and lemon syrup added one 
cup of granulated sugar, and boiled it to¬ 
gether till a drop would sink in a cup of 
cold water, (this is our test with jellies of 
all kinds) then pour it into glasses. It is 
perfectly delightful, and far excels the 
crab apple jelly in color, solidity and flavor, 
and is really a very gratifying change. 
