THE HORITCULTURAL SHOW AT THE ARBORETUM

... as follows:- Mr. James Walters, chemist, a fine collection of potatoes, beans, peas, rhubarb, onions, turnips, parsnips, asparagus, gooseberries, apples (1862), black currants, strawberries, &c. (not for competition, but highly recommended, especially ...

THE ORATORIO SOCIETY'S EVENING CONCERT

... ducks 6s per couple, chIcken, 4s 6d to 5s, cream Is per 1b, br-tter 10d to Is, eggs 15 for Is, bread 64d per 41b loaf, asparagus Is 4d per 100, gooseberries 2.1d per quart, strawberries 5d, peass 8d to Is 8d per peek, potatoes (new) Is 6d to 2s per score ...

Household Hints

... well. After four or five days a few drops of this will have the odour of fresh violets. 'AsPABAoUs 80uP.-Boil one banob of asparagus and one onion until tender, with one teaspoonful of salt and one of pepper. Pass through a colander and mix with one quart ...

ALTRINCHAM AND BOWDON FLOWER SHOW

... dishes of ditto, Mr. Hobson; three stlcksd rhubarb, Mr. Galloway; single dish of potatoes sprlngg.row Wr. D'Eenzle; dish of asparagus, Mr. Bslston. Cottageg prizes: Bouquet of hardy flowers, Miss Smith; cightem varieties of out, wild flowers, Ur. H. A. Ricketts; ...

ELLEN TERRY'S STRAY MEMORIES

... I remember that evening (when she left off flitting, and proved to me that she was not really a butterfly by eating acme asparagus for supper after the play) she spoke to me about my real tears in King Bend's Daughter, not with surprise, but with interest ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1891
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 576 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... Battersly, Torquay-Box of Agates. am Henry Ellis and Son, Silversmithss to the Queen-Sisall Go articles of silver plate, asparagus fork, and gold and silver Ft samfety chain brooches, Devonshire agate, and Madrapore of ditto. Specimens of silver net work ...

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... should acquire ex- perience with rhubarb and sea kale, then with asparagus and mushrooms and kidney beans, and so on to I higher heights' of this branch of practical gardening. AsPAtAGUS.-Asparagus beds should now be looked over, and a good body of rich manure ...

TWO WAYS

... .. 0 5 Gooseberries, per ?? 0 10 1 0.010 0 Cherries, per ?? 0101 ?? 010 ?? 0 Peas, per peck ?? . .. .0 ?? 60 0 Asparagus ?? a e2 3 D2 .. .3 9 AUC2Greeaih,,.,.0 3.0 6. ..,1 0 M .s.roomeperbaet 0 o .. 0 0 ?? ?? 0 0 ib wlb IA a 0O.,_00 _ 0e0 ...

CUTTINGS FROM THE COMIC JOURNALS

... cigars growing !-Jokist : Yes; out they only come to perfection inl hotoonotries, where they sell themi.n bundles, like asparagus. Those for smoking: are fried in empyreumiatic oil of a lialht bcown.-J]. Mf. One.-As we see them in the boxei? I ear me ...

PLAYERS IN PERIL

... already one man there, lying with his clothes on, and snoring like a pig. This was a gentleman whom Dodson had nicknamed Asparagus. He was an ill-bred, selfish old fellow, who had made himself a nuisance all the way out. He had suffered much from sea-sickness ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1891
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3202 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CURRENT LITERATURE

... ealprogresssince the invention of printing is decidedly hard on Professor Skeat and Dr. Murray; and his selec- tion of asparagus, derived from sparrow grass -a species of grass to which sparrows are par- tial-as a by no means unfair specimen of the ...

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES FOR JUNE

... bags, kc., may be sown for autumn and winter use Treneh celery, plant out endive and Jerusalem kale. Water newly planted asparagus beds; indeed, if the season be dry, generally, watering must be had recourse to. Thia out seakale. Sow early turnips, small ...