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AGRICULTURE, Ike

... winters, and the quantity it produces late in the spring. It is a curious thing that the only native fruits of England are the blackberry, elderberry, acorn, and hips and hawes. For every thing else, both fruits and vegetables, we are indebted to other countries ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1832
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 441 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

f FRID4-Y, OCTOBER 19,

... , as they tend le mend the peace of individuate, without producing the anther any beneficial As this is the season fur blackberries, a correspondent wishes us to inform the public, that the juice of that fruit (about a quarter of a pint, for three or ...

Published: Friday 19 October 1821
Newspaper: Carmarthen Journal
County: Carmarthenshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 488 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CHIT CHAT CONCERNING WOMEN AND BOOKS. -

... effigy, nor Bristol in reality. Women WOMEN against the world. Of books it is hard to speak for they come upon us plenty as blackberries and yet leave time to the leading authors of the day to get up leading articles for every magazine that—shall we say swims ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1832
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 574 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

The master and wardens of the Merchant Tailors' Company give a sumptuous entertainment at their Hall, on ..

... House and filaticard's, stole a quantity of sovereigns at each, and then disappeared. This summer they will be as plenty as blackberries. Each steamer will bring a fresh lot. Truly, a pleasant prospetit for the Yankees. A long and not entertaining correspondence ...

Published: Friday 22 May 1840
Newspaper: Welshman
County: Carmarthenshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 641 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... came into use. A Mr. Patterson, of Dublin, has taken out a patent for tan- ning from the roots, stems, and branches of the blackberry bush, obtained in the spring and, after preparation, he stales, quilt; equal to oak bark. ere and evil so nearly balanced ...

Published: Saturday 15 April 1837
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 631 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

NOTICES FOR THE MONTH

... saffron butterfly appears. Hips and haws now ornament the hedges. The berries of the briony and the privet, the barberry, the blackberry, the holly, and the elder, from which is made the famous winter wine of old Eng- land's peasantry, with sloes, bullaces ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1849
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 653 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

SPORTING

... a pair of shoes attended the Epping Hunt yesterday. The coaches, cabs, and carts on the Essex road were as plentiful as blackberries, and were drawn by horses of all sorts and sizes, consisting principally o — or,, Higghng, jiggling, Hiesledy, piggledy ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1836
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 646 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

House, Russell on Crimes and Misdemeanors; just such another specimen his talent that displayed in the ..

... fat or store sheep the few sold, fetched per lb. Good horses were few-and far between—inferior runts were plentiful as blackberries, and most of them returned to the “bourne Irom whence” they had sallied out at daybreak. Ross.—Last week the workmen employed ...

Published: Saturday 16 December 1837
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Beacon
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 659 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MERTHYR

... of a Poor man's family, have contributed to establish the beer shops and Dowlais, which in these places are plentiful as blackberries. Knowing the many evils arising from the old practice of payment, Sir John Guest has made arrangements for the substitution ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1844
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 685 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

NEATH

... sixty yards from the house where it had got over a stile into a garden, when her attention was at- tracted by some inviting blackberries, which were suspended from a hedge of the garden where there was a pool of water, and into which, it is sup- posed, whilst ...