"The Blackberry Blossom (2)", in Gaelic "Blat na smeur", also known as "Maude Millar", "The Strawberry Beds" or "Strawberry Blossom" is an Irish, Canadian and American reel in 4/4 time and G Major (Harding, Kennedy, Kerr, O'Neill, Perlman, Sullivan) or E Flat Major (Stanford/Petrie). The parts are played AB (Miller, Perlman, Stanford/Petrie, Sullivan), AAB (Hardings, Kennedy, Kerr, O'Neill) or AA'B (Prior).
"The Magic Slipper" is a very similar tune. The American "Blackberry Blossom" is a very different tune.
The melody is familiar to Irish tradition, from at least the year 1850, if not earlier, according to Samuel Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle, 1981). There aree mid-19th century music manuscripts of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon James Goodman that contain "Blackberry Blossom".
The title "Blackberry Blossom" appears in a list of tunes in his repertoire brought by Philip Goodman, the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth, to the Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1898 (Breathnach, 1997).
It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981), Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940), Cotter's Traditional Irish Tin Whistle Tutor (1989), Giblin's Collection of Traditional Irish Dance Music (1928), Harding's Original Collection (1932), Elias Howe's Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7 (1880-1882), Kennedy's Fiddler's Tune-Book: Reels & Rants, Flings & Fancies (1997), Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (c. 1880) (as "The Strawberry Beds"), McDermott's Allan's Irish Fiddler (c. 1920's), Miller's Fiddler's Throne (2004), O'Connor's The Rose in the Gap (2018), Krassen's O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1976), O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903) and Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), Perlman's The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island (1996), Prior's Fionn Seisiún 3 (2007), Robbins Music Corp's The Robbins collection of 200 jigs, reels and country dances (1933), Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883), Stanford/Petrie's Complete Collection (1905) and Sullivan's Session Tunes, vol. 3 (2000).
It was recorded by Todd Denman on Like Magic (1995) (as "Maude Millar's"), Buddy MacMaster on Glencoe Hall (1991), John J. Kimmel (appears as one of the tunes in the "Stack of Barley Medley") (78 RPM), Kevin Burke on An Fhidil Straith II (1980), Michael Cooney on Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part (1986), Mary Bergin on Traditional Irish Music, James Morrison on The Pure Genius of James Morrison (1978), Planxty on The Well Below the Valley (1973), Brian Conway on First Through the Gate (2002), Planxty on After the Break (1979), Seamus Tansey on Jigs, Reels and Airs, P.J. & Marcus Hernon on Beal A' Mhurlaigh (1989), Conal Ó Gráda on The Top of Croom, O'Aces on From Night Til Morning, Ben Lennon and Friends on The Natural Bridge, John O'Halloran on But Why, Johnny? (1999), Ceoltoiri Coleman on The Killaville Sessions, Mary Mac Namara on The Blackberry Blossom, Kevin Crawford on The 'D' flute Album and John J. Kimmell (1916) (2nd tune in medley) (78 RPM).