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XEWBUBY. FEBRUARY 26, 1881

... by King Koffee—Wooden Spoon. Mr. Braithwaite’s Wvch Boy, by Sentry—Wych Lass, beat Mr. Hunter Herd Laddie Sam, by Balfe—Blackberry. Thursday. The second day’s coursing at Ashdown was a great improvement on that of the first, and a great deal o the snow ...

Published: Saturday 26 February 1881
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2087 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HORTICULTURE

... When planted bo trained against an espalier the plants may be two feet apart, and six feet between the espaliers. Brsmbles, blackberry, may be planted at a similar distanoe raspberries, and be trained similarly to espaliers. The Lawton and Dorchester are ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1881
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 936 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... Shakesperian greeting God’s benlson be with you”’—\e another Of tbe less ela “beat” sacred verses and others a spray of the blackberry or mistletoe; while the forget- me-not, the lily, and sundry other flowers, fruits, or ferns are t into requisition, the ...

Published: Saturday 10 December 1881
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4031 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... admirable skill. Ihe subject is the Grand Canal from Ca' Bernardo. The other full-pnge illustrations are etching entitled 'Blackberry Gatherers, and a sea-fishing sceno, Their Only Harvest, from a painting by Colin Hunter. In the latter the drawing of ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1883
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 672 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AGRICULTURE

... Sydney, Australia, such fruits as the peach, nectarine, apricot, plum, fig, grape, cherry, and orange, are as plentiful as blackberries. The orangeries and orchards of New South Wales are among its sights ; and in the neighbourhood of Sydney and round Port ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1883
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 894 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SHOCKING DISCOVERY IN ASTRIDGE WOOD, NEAR WOKINGHAM

... supposed he had an attack of ague and fell, being then unable to get up. When he left home he said he should bring back some blackberries for his little girl; and he took her basket with him. John Wooldridge, a labourer, said on Monday morning he was going ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1883
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 631 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WORINGHAM

... I suppose he bed an attack of ague and fell and could not get up. When he left home be said he should bring back some blackberries for his little girl, and he took her little basket with him. I do not thank he was illereated in any way.—John Wooldridge ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1883
Newspaper: Reading Observer
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 951 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Serious Illness of Mr. Wiieble.—We much regret to learn that Mr. J. J. Wheble, of Bulmershe Court, was this morning

... nest was also discovered last week in a bush. In North Wales even, the weather has been so mild that a quan tity of ripe blackberries were gathered by a little girl near Colwyn Bay, and in a cottage garden, near Colwyn, several standard tea roses were last ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1884
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3340 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

2,000 EGYPTIANS KILLED

... trampling down and ruining. Then as the seasons corn nand there are those in search of wild flowers ; boys birdnesting ; blackberry gatherers, and seekers after malls. The loss and damage occasioned by these is alaseet Incredible. Hedges are broken, crops ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1884
Newspaper: Reading Observer
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2095 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ALDERSHOT

... arcades. These are supported on shafts of Derbyshire alabaster. The capitals are carved with designs of natural foliage—blackberry, ivy, &c. Altogether the work is most successful and reflects the greatest credit upon Mr. Boulton, of Cheltenham. HAMPSHIRE ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1884
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1051 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AUGUST. The golden sheaves are gleaming in the sun On many bristling stubble: the lank grass Has suffered all its

... bristling stubble: the lank grass Has suffered all its brightest green to pass: The leaves are losing all that summer won The blackberries are ripening one by one : The hazel nuts are browning on the trees ; While 'mid the clover-blossoms all the bees Are toiling ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1884
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 118 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

COTTAGE GARDEN SHOW at MIDGHAM

... sixtyfive varieties; Mr Stacey also contributed novelty in the shape of basket of autumn fruits, including crabapples, walnuts, blackberries, nuts, &c. Members of the county police force may be said to have come well to the fore on this occasion, inasmuch as P ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1884
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1817 | Page: 2 | Tags: none