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BLACKBERRIES

... BLACKBERRIES. AS 'he feafon for making a jelly of blackberries ** is approaching, a correfpondent defires us to communicate the following account of its very remarkable efficacy in that dreadful dif- order the gravel and ftone. — A gentleman who for many ...

Published: Thursday 21 September 1797
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 190 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Poetry

... VI (VOttrv. DLACMBERRIES AND KISSES. Blackberries! ripe blackberries I Will you come and seeeP Over all the woods and lanes They are running free. Blackberries ! ripe blackberris I Will you come and eat ? Nature bids you to the feast, Spreads the wlid ...

MR. GLADSTONE ON FRUIT FARMING

... tons; blackberry, 100 tons. They can be bought from ready-money grocers in two and three-pound stoneware jars, at the following prices :-Goseberry, 5d. to 6&d. per lb.; raspberry. 6d. to 6id.; strawberry, Gd, to Gid.; black currant, 5d. ; blackberry, 5hd ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1884
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 469 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

DERBY TRADESMEN'S BALL

... Fairy Land; quadrille, Vanity Fair; Highland sohottisobe ; valse, Little Sailors ; lancers, Aladdin ; polka, Blackberries; lancers, Jollity. The supper was suppUed in first-class style by Mr. Bayner, of the BeU Hotel. ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1888
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 433 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MR. GLADSTONE ON FRUIT FARMING

... German, and )f American frit-growers. -d All the gooseberries raspberries, strawberries, black our. t- rants, damoons, and blackberries need by me are entirely )f English-no foreign whatever being uied-and to prove ao that the quantity in not particularly ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1884
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 563 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

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... basket, while Serena vaguely repeated, * Blackberries ? Then ber shadow stepped boldly forward and faced her aunt. Blackberries I he said, derisively, Did yon think we, either of us, went for blackberries ? — Harper's Magazine. BESTING THE BAKER ...

Poetry

... 4VtrQ. WH1EN BLACKiBEtRRIES SCENT TIHE AIR. We gathered the blackberries long ago, My sweet little Katie and I, In the woods all bathed in the autumn glow, 'Neath the blue of a cloudless sky v That ever seemed fair; but now I know, b As the shadows all ...

The working clauses of Devonport have resolved present testimonial to Mr. W. B. Ferrand, who contested the late ..

... wheels would have precipitated the train into the river. Mistaking Belladonna por Blackberries.—Last week some children belonging to the town of Sevenoakes went blackberry gathering, and one of them, lad about ten years of age, was induced to eat some berries ...

Published: Wednesday 14 September 1859
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 442 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DERBYSHIRE WEATHER SIGNS

... devil cast his club over the blackberries before the month of September was out, then expect a bad winter, said our oracles. The 'devil's club is an early frost whioh spoils in a single night the whole crop of blackberries, and is considered, apart from ...

Published: Wednesday 17 August 1892
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 742 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

Poetry

... Vattxg. II BLACKBERRY GATHERING. In the ?? davs of autumn, when the sun glows on the trees, Th0 ?? of chfldren's voices echoes upon tbe breeze As to the tangled hedge6 a scoro of little feet Hurry along to search once more for berries ripe and sweet. ...

(_>aii(leni^ Wintt

... as far as quality goes, than any fr.-m outside sources. Blackberries are fruit . which should be found on • most market-, and in mast retail fruit shops. By this we do not meau wild blackberries which are sent up as ungated as they come from the hedgerows ...

Published: Wednesday 28 September 1898
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 510 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

POETRY

... school, in their leafy retreat, The wild birds sit listening the drops round them beat; And the boy crouches close to the blackberry wall. The swallows alone take the storm on their wing, And, taunting the treo-sheltered labourers, sing, Like pebbles the ...