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INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO

... time partly bearing a very fine crop of Pears. Last week were cut in the garden of a gentleman at Holdgate, near York, two cauliflowers, each of which weighed ten pounds and a half, stripped of the leaves, and were 27 inches in circumference. The match between ...

Published: Thursday 22 August 1816
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4356 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ON THE FOOD AND DRINK FOR OLD AGE

... either tea or weak chocolate, aud it seems to be more heating. Of the vegetable additions to dinner, green pease, asparagus, cauliflowers, beaus, mealy patatocs. rice, and simply-dressed macaroni, are recommended. Onions and roots of that sort are acrimonious ...

Published: Thursday 27 January 1820
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1653 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... Britain, Iec'ause we are obliged to cultivate them. Asparagus CVauleifowe iprted fyrom Asia; .Cresses--from Cretc; 11 (C'auliflower frutuDCyprus;. Cbervil froin Italy; Catbbage and Lettuce from 1-Hulland; Feill.e -from Canary Islands; Galieck from the ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1822
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 5496 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

NEGRO SLAVERY

... by fresh during pretty long voyages. It may be inferreal, the .t same mode of preservation might be extended to winter ; cauliflower, brocoli, &9e le. CAnROTS.-A correiponrlent in the Farnmers' Jolt'nal x| says:- Having been in the hahit of growing carrots ...

Published: Thursday 25 December 1823
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 6601 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

VARIETIES

... Bearing has just discorered, atid maeknown to thle I-1 .r~cition tiral Socriety, ani efrectuial ili)etlaod of preserving cauliflowers for a length of time inl bo~g woold! T1he %vasps this year are shewring early indications of strength And numiber. It is ...

Published: Thursday 04 May 1826
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1586 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

A VETERAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL

... the poiederert; that to say, the only one the regiment who, despite of new customs and new taxes, clung to the good old cauliflower-head the army, and would more have gone to parade without pomatum and powder than without his sword and sash. He had been ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1827
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2962 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

KESWICK THEATRICALS

... less than the chain of roastingjack. Old Renault, stout young Munster man in a coachman's cauliflower; who, when the plot was discovered, doff'd his cauliflower, and personated in his own proper person *• the duke and assembled senate, —sitting solus ...

Published: Saturday 30 August 1828
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

USEFUL DIRECTIONS FOR APRIL

... whether the spot to be onTv a seed bed or the final station of the plant. Sow the d fferent sorts b'Ocoli twice in the month, cauliflower once; kidney beans, for afirsr crop, in the lasi week ; also scorzonera, shirrit, and sai if required. Finish planting potatoes ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1829
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEA

... proper colours —Quarterly iieview. Preservation of Plants from Slugs. correspondent recommends for preserving cabbages and cauliflowers from slugs, the spreading well cut chaff round the young plants under hand-glasses, and some lound the outside ofthe glasses ...

Published: Saturday 06 June 1829
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2527 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Plymouth Election.—So great is the opposition at the approaching election tor Mayor that one gentleman has ..

... few strawberries. In 1533 the current tree was brought from Zantc by the Venetians, and planted in England. Asparagus, Cauliflower, Beans, and Peas were introduced about the time Charles the Se.' cond ; and those sweet and beautiful ornaments of our gardens ...

Published: Saturday 12 September 1829
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1443 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SOMERSET LENT ASSIZES

... Peas, not less than half a peck .. .. .. Fifteen Shillings The second best ditto .. .. .. Half Guinea The best dish of Cauliflower, not less than heads .. • • ■ • • • Seven Shilling & Sixnence Tlie best dish of Brocoli, not less than heads Ditto The three ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1830
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4595 | Page: 3 | Tags: none