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... prove this-that Biblical olive grove ; and the mule-path, suggestive of hunts for wild flowers (or blackberries in season, for the ubiquitous blackberry grows here beside the caper and the pepper), and picnics up among the pine groves; and that olive mill ...

Published: Saturday 18 March 1882
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4914 | Page: 15 | Tags: News 

BY A LIMESTONE QUARRY

... Then for varieties of white bloom, there is the white clover and the large white discs of the cow-parsnip, and the white blackberry blossoms, and the clusters of the elder, and the large, flat, snowy flowers of the wild Guelder rose, which is here called ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1882
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1730 | Page: 18 | Tags: News 

A CAPITAL INVESTMENT

... In her haste she stumbled over roots of trees, she caught her foot in a rabbit-hole, she tore her skirt to ribbons in a blackberry bush-but all was no matter-nothing, nothing was any matter so long as she arrived in time. Already she heard the grunt of ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1885
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4315 | Page: 27 | Tags: News 

AT TEWKESBURY

... here and there by an atom of white, that shows us where the acrid wild plum will be found in the autumn, when doubtless blackberries will also abound about the low-growing bushes, that in their turn are also newly-dressed in emerald leaves. The soft white ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1885
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1252 | Page: 24 | Tags: News 

THE PARTRIDGE

... summer they have, in addition, grubs, beetles, and inwects. In autumn they have their share of the grain harvest, of the blackberries, which are then so plentiful in the hedgerows, and of the tender parts of the still-growing clover. In winter they manage ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1886
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1288 | Page: 25 | Tags: News 

A LONDON COLLEGE

... niiscellaneous items a- theology, veterinary surgery, and the higher education of women. colleges of the new style are as ?? as blackberries ; the old style was something different, the buildings were historical, the P)(ns were historical, and-most important of ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1886
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1432 | Page: 25 | Tags: News 

RURAL NOTES

... warm weather at the end of August and first fortnight of September. The drawback of blackberry bushes is their attracting trespassers. It may be added that the blackberry responds to cultivation, and we believe that with a little botanical caie the size ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1398 | Page: 30 | Tags: News 

RURAL NOTES

... remarkable experiences of new crops. His first idea, derived from a daily paper of unques- tioned sobriety, was to grow blackberries for jam-making. He bought a number of first-class brambles, which were to bear, so the nursery gardeners said, fruit ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1345 | Page: 15 | Tags: News 

TABLEAUX VIVANTS

... perhaps in one case out of a million-spoil the illusion. It is the same with your fine-looking men, who are as plentiful as blackberries. You can trust them to he magnificent as Cevur de Lion smiting the Saracen, or Front de Bmeuf running after Rebecca over ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1583 | Page: 18 | Tags: News 

RURAL NOTES

... prove to have been at all invariably attended by injury to the fruit. The crop is reckoned half an average. Iledgenuits, blackberries, and mushrooms are plentiflith Vt of England this season, and the great abundance of ordinaryh nu'tsi remarked from other ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1890
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1139 | Page: 18 | Tags: News 

HEDGEROW PHEASANTS

... their bill of fare then is an agree- able contrast to the luxuries of the coops and the feeding-whistle. The pheasant likes blackberries, sloes, haws, seeds of various kinds, tender leaves, and insects. How the old-fashioned hedgerow offers all these I And ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1890
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1258 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

A PRAWN PICNIC IN SCILLY

... Porthlo nestles on the hillside. Then, leaving Carn Marvel and Sandy Bar, with the slopes between alive with fern and juicy blackberries, we cross the Roads, our pilot assuring the nervous that the terrible Dammy Sin- ncrs ledge is well to windward. Away ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1891
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1309 | Page: 24 | Tags: News