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GARDENING OPERATIONS

... out lettuce on a rich warm piece of ground, and provide a succession of radishes and other small salads. Manure and dress asparagus beds. Get cauliflower plants raised under glass hardened off, and pay every attention to those under hand-glasses in order ...

Published: Saturday 12 March 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 475 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

HOUSEWIFE'S CORNER

... 10 „ 1 o . 010 „ 1 0 „ l per &24. 0 8 „ „ t! Potatoes, pr. peek' 0 „ 0 „ 2 2 2 4 „ 0 „ n ...

Published: Tuesday 15 June 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 513 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

GARDEN OPERATIONS

... Witham, Essex, mentions an application which he has found successful this year in freeing his asparagus from a bad attack of the Criceris asparagi (asparagus beetle). The mixture consists of half a pound of soft soap, quarter of a poond of flower of salphur ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1878
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1221 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Table Talk

... price of provisions this sum. sner is as follows: -eggs, 3d. per doz; cauliflowers, Id. per head; artichokes, id. ditto; asparagus, id. per bundle; butter, 6jd. per lb. ; strawberries, I franc per basket; meat, 3id. per lb.; fish, various prices but very ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1835
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1050 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SCIENCE NOTES

... there is any ke remedy for hydrophobia it is well to try and s find it out, and give any reasonable plan a fair trial. . Asparagus grown in some parts of France has I been found to produce colic and diarrhcea in l those who have eaten it. Chemical investiga- ...

Published: Thursday 12 August 1886
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1309 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

HOUSEWIFE'S CORNER

... hat ?? pod..1 5.0 0 ?? 1 6. 1 7 3or Salt Ditto-. . ?? 0.. 1 3 Eg I V124 6 6 0 0 ?? 6 3.. 0 0 on-wl . 13.. 16. 1 3.. 1 8 Asparagus.000100..00 5 0 .. 00 0ucmbers. ?? each .. 2 6.. 0 0 ?? 1 6.. 2 6 Filberts ?? :pound.. 2 0 ..0 0 ?? 010..0 0 n Grapes ...

Published: Friday 19 March 1858
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 500 | Page: 10 | Tags: News 

HOUSEWIFE'S CORNER

... peck .. .. 0 0 0 .. 1 2 Damsons $ quart .. 0 6 .. 0 0 .. 0 0 Plums .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 10 Peas $ peck .. 0 0 .. 0 0 0 8 .. 1 2 Asparagus & .. 0 0 .. 0 0 0 0 .. 0 0 Cucumbers . each .. 0 2 .. 0 4 .. 0 6 Peaches 0 0 .. 0 0 0 .. 0 Aprioots do*. ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 1861
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 497 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

VILLA, ALLOTMENT, AND COTTAGE GARDENS

... Some amateur' gardoeinrs tako 'a praiseworthy pride a in growing a little: asparagus, and it is good gardening b to have it in fiue character. In the south of England e b asparagus is rarelt dub from the beds after the middle ti of June; in the Mjidlamids ...

Published: Friday 10 June 1892
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1699 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

HOUSEWIFE'S CORNER

... 0•„ 0 1 5•• 1 4 1 *.. 1 0 0 I2L H 1 „ 1 „ 1 S^.^! rll4 „ 6 „ 0 Potatoes, pr. peck 4 „ 22,, « „ 2 „ new, per lb. 1 „ „ Asparagus per 100 SO,, „ „ Gooseberries p. qt 80„ 00 ~ 00 00..00 Strawberries puz 1 „ ~ „00 FOwls, per couple „ „ » « ~ »««ks, „ 210 ...

Published: Tuesday 11 May 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 580 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

GARDENING OPERATIONS

... litter which it causes. Get ground prepared by heavy manuring and trenching for fresh plantations of rhubarb, seakale and asparagus, and re- member that the ground for these things can hardly be too rich. COTTAGERS' GARDEN.- The cottager's leisure hours ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 518 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

GARDENING OPERATIONS

... BND KrrCHaa GARDEN. - pash for ward aU alterations requiring attention here with the lat possible delay. Manure and dress asparagus beds. Ge cauliflower plans r under glass hardened off, aud P every attention to those under hand-glasses, in 0ee forward ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 509 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

ACCRINGTON AND HASLINGDEN

... wuellprown potatoes, turnips,. oions;' three sticks of rbubarb, weighing 16bs. ;. cabbages, let. tuce, cauliflowers;, 'parsey, asparagus, peas, beans, cncumder. gooseberries, blactcurrantg cherrls sstdrotherfres, peaches tindn apples. The show was8 wpell attended ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1854
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 6 | Tags: News