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THE FARM

... Australia. The rainfall in New South Wales has been unusually heavy. Seventy (inches fallen in the last seven months. The Blackberry crop in Kent this season is an exceptionally large one, and the fruit, owing to the hot sun and high temperature, is of ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1890
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 845 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MORE BERKSHIRE BIRDS

... feather-lined or not. The Whitethroat warbler seems less common than the so-called Gardes Warbler, whose frail nest found in blackberry bushes and among herbage, though the bird is seldom visible—its inconspicuous plumage saving it from observation. Berkshire ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1893
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 858 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE PANTOMIME AT THE LYCEUM

... and bids everybody help Cinderella, Autmn then changing to the King's Woods in the and where faggots are being made, and blackberries effect ■ ather ed. This is a lovely scene, and the eightened b y Mendelssohn's part song, and rofi thewoo ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1893
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 816 | 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

FACTS AND FACETIÆ

... the gnarled roots of the trees forming a rough bank on their sides. At the foot of these banks ditch is often cut, and blackberry bushes form an arch across. There is such wood between Beaconsfield and Hedgerley. As was walking along leisurely, bird ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1892
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1877 | 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

LONDON CHILDREN IN THE COUNTRY

... both wild and garden, and large handkerchiefs originally white, but now dyed the colour of their juicy contents, namely, blackberries, which they can get the summer advances for the plucking; then, discovers boy with a basket of apples, to take home to ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1899
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 895 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CONDENSED INTELLIGENCE

... defaulter on the Stock Exchange. Between the lst of September and the middle or latter end of October hundreds of tons of fine blackberries in Cornwall ripen and fall to the ground to rot. The natives tire of them, and wild birds are no way equal to eating up ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1899
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1853 | Page: 10 | 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

WALLINGFORD

... seeing the defendants in some swedes belonging to Mr Kirby, in the parish of South Moreton. They said they were fickiug blackberries, but on searching them he found six rabbit nets in their pockets. A previous conviction for similar offence having been ...

Published: Saturday 08 November 1884
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 909 | Page: 5 | 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

AGRICULTURE

... cereals), and peas, may be imported, free of duty, into the Grand Duchy of Finland, until the termination of the present year. Blackberry Wine.—Over as many quarts you have of berries, pour so many quarts of cold water which has been boiled. Bruise the berries ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1862
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1240 | Page: 8 | Tags: none