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ROYAL ILSLEY SOCIETY

... called the garden of the world. You wiil therefore be surprised to hear that formerly the only fruit it produced was the blackberry, the wild strawberry, the crab apple, a wild pear growing on a thorny bush, and the sloe. All other fruits now so common ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1858
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4173 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ROYAL ILSLEY COTTAGERS' SOCIETY

... called the garden of the world, and you will be therefore surprised to hear that formerly the only fruit produced was the blackberry, the wild strawberry, the sloe, the crab apple, and a very bad description of pear, growing upon what they thought tree ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1858
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6324 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Upwards of one thousand artisans of the Woolwich Arsehal are ordered to be temporarily discharged, in ..

... gooseberry and strawberry blossom, and even fruit of the latter has been gathered lately, in the hedges the fruit of the blackberry not unfrequently seen, and close beside it may be found that most welcome of all our wild flowers—the primrose. I may add ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1859
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 901 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews are about to return to the United States, intending a theatrical tour, there. ! They

... theatrical tour, there. ! They will go by the Great Eastern. Mistaking Belladonna for Blackberries.—Last week some children belonging to Sevenoaks went out blackberry gathering, and one of them, lad about ten years of age, was induced to eat some berries ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1859
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1351 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Health of London During the Past Week. ���From the official report. —The health of London is improving, and the ..

... of the case it was adjourned for further examination. Mistaking Belladonna for Blackberries.— Last week some children belonging to the town of Seven• onks went out blackberry gathering, and one of them, a lad about ten years of age, was induced to eat some ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1859
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 2157 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DIARY OF NATURAL HISTORY, BOTANY &c

... in removing decayed plants, digging, gathering seeds, sowing and planting for next year. The gathering of nuts, acorns, blackberries, and elderberries, finds many of the poor employment and profit; but it is to be regretted that vast quantities of hazel-nuts ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1859
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1165 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

attendants of autumn. Behold the signs and vrsrmngs Of autumn —misty mornings, Ere earlier shadows flinging, ..

... mellow, Mixed red. and brows, and yellow, As we grow grey, old fellow Abroad the orchin rambles, And rummages the brambles, Blackberries bent picking, For all the thorns keep sticking Into his fingers—pricking. Philosophers resemble The rooks, that now assemble ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1859
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 154 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE OPENING MEET OF MR. GARTH'S HOUNDS

... master, T. C. Garth, Esq. The field was one of the largest we ever remember to have seen, the pinks being as thick as blackberries and u black twice as numerous as pinks. Tbe house was open to great and small, all being hearti'y welcomed. Within ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1859
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 344 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TRAVELLED PRINCES OF WALES

... and again ; creating 150 new peers or mGre, if necessary, till lords shall become as common and cheap in England as the blackberries on the hedges —or even, the last extremity, I will vote for and I will support, with all the powers of a member of the ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1860
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3509 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FACTS AND FACETIÆ

... by-gone years, before the gold-fields were over-run by the rush of immigrants, and when golden holes were as plentiful as blackberries, party of two or three men, having worked out a good claim, which had yielded, say 500/. a man, would forward their gold ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1861
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1976 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

The Earl of Fitzwilliam is recovering from the accident received last week while hunting, by his horse falling ..

... boy, aged four years, with him to a corn-field for a ride, and on reaching there he set him down, and left him gathering blackberries. In about five minutes after the father returned, and found his son hanging on a gate with his head between the bars, and ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1861
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2666 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE COLUMN OF LITERATURE

... Shakespeare. —Edited by Robt. Carruthers and Wm. Chambers.—The editions of Shakespeare are doubtless as plentiful as blackberries, but the peculiar and genuine merit of the above edition is, that it is purged from all the indelicacies which were palatable ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1861
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2359 | Page: 8 | Tags: none