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HINTS UPON GARDENING. ----

... yellowish winter hue. We are more than ever satis- fied that sand is preferable to clay for all spergulas and saginas. ONIONS for salads to be sown frequently. Fork over the beds of main crop, and if no blade appearing, or if the blade is thin, make up your mind ...

Published: Saturday 15 April 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1015 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

HINTS UPON GARDENING. ....-

... half-worn sashes without glass, may readily make a most useful ^atraw cover of them, well adapted for covering endive aad other salads, parsley, &c. as also for placing over early crops of potatoes, radishes, carrots, &s. When covered equally, three or four ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 960 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

DOUCLAS JERROLD AT HOME.j

... clearing the flies from the roses. Dinner, if there be no visitors, will be at four. In the summer, a cold quarter of lamb and salad, and a rasp- berry tart, with a little French wine in the tent, and a cigar. Then a short nap—forty winks—upon the great sofa ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1859
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1002 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

TOWN T--i

... tunnelling beneath. Rank and strength were alike driven back in vain attempts to discover the particular carriage where lobster salad and iced champagne awaited them. One marked feature of the crowd was the number of foreigners -not Frenchmen only, of whom ...

Published: Saturday 14 June 1862
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1131 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

TOVVN TALK

... real tables, and assisted by such vanities as silver forks and spoons. But the volunteers do the work they make the lobster salads, and cook the potatoes, and wash up the dishes, and put everything in order. And the ladies look on in astonishment, and wonder ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1127 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

.HINTS UPON GARDENING

... they pay no rent, or at best give a few sprouts which in the end will be of far less value than the rows of spinach and early salad ings that might have been obtained from the same spots. The most satisfactory way to deal with old atumpa of cabbage, broccoli ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1169 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SI3SIT3 UPON GAKDEJSTSTQ. j

... including broccoli, cabbage, kale, &o. &o. Sow collards, red Dutch and sugarloaf cab. bage, endive. Hammersmith lettuce, salad onions, golden and Normandy cress, Flanders spinach, stone ^FLOWER GARDEN. —Chrysanthemums should not > be topped any more ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1121 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

FARMING AND GARDENING

... away the runners, so as, to afford the leaves plenty of room. Attend to providing plenty of lettuce, endive, &c., for winter salads: also see that there is a good bed of parsley provided in some sheltered spot where it can be readily protected in severe ...

Published: Saturday 20 August 1864
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1257 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

HINTS UPON GARDENING. -----

... scarlet runners, and French beans, turnips, lettuces, radishes, cabbages, spinach, endive, cauliflower, and peas and beans. All salad plants should have a shady position, or they may run to seed. Cropping: Sow succession beans, marrow peas, let- tuce, Portugal ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1229 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

OUR MISCELLANY. ----

... small quantity of vinegar will generally destroy imme- diately any insect that may find its way into the stomach; and a little salad oil will kill any insect that may enter the ear. What's in a Name?—There are two families living in one house, in a small market ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1864
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1275 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

HINTS UPON GARDENING

... h, the crowns to be planted 15 inches deep, and six inches apart, in very rich and well- trenched soil. Continue to sow saladings, and gather seeds as fast as they ripen. Potatoes to be taken up as the tops wither; carrots and beetroot may remain till ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1401 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

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... concealed by the draper v. Back room with table glittering with china and cut glass, among which are ornamental stacks of chicken salad, long white sticks of celery, mixed up with grapes, fruit, &c., while the long necks of several bottles erect them- selves ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1861
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1520 | Page: 3 | Tags: News