Refine Search

Countries

Place

Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Access Type

35

Type

35

Public Tags

No tags available

A PARADISE FOR VEGETARIANS

... tomatoes, mushrooms, egg-plant, and scores of other vegetables are cultivated and thrive well. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, whortleberries, currants, and other berries flourish. There is scarcely a day the when strawberries cannot ...

Published: Saturday 11 December 1875
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A LAND OF PEACHES

... tbe neighbourhood of Sydney fruits the peach nectarine, apricot, plum, fig. grape, cherry, aad orange ere 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 03 March 1883
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 208 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD

... for the purpose ; when done, split and butter slightly, put on each layer a generous supply of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, chopped pineapple, sliced oranges or peaches; do not mash the berries; sprinkle the fruit with powdered sugar, and pour ...

Published: Saturday 15 September 1883
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 272 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE AMERICAN FRUIT CROP

... birds on New Hampshire hills are feasted with raspberries, the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee are purple with blackberries which to waste, and the time has been when an extra good crop of peaches in Delaware has meant a million baskets fruit ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1878
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 420 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE

... form one the finest pictures of colour, richness, and abundance it is possible to see, and they are well worth a vis t The blackberries, also, are in great abundance, so are mushrooms, and the peasantry, are making a little harvest in gathering them. Pastures ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1870
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 527 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A PLAGUE OF SNAKES

... which were racew, horn-tail adders, gray adders, and pdots, an. old, worked-out. flag-stone quarry, while he was picking blackberries. They were ali coiled in together, and when he disturbed them they made a terrible hissing. He and Irish boy named Andrew ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1880
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 588 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Miscellaneous Intelligence

... a boat voraciously. Superstition about Blackberries.—Once more the blackberry is not without its folk-lore, and there is a popular superstition that the Devil always puts his cloven foot upon the blackberries on Michaelmas Day, and on this account it ...

Published: Saturday 24 September 1881
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 5557 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Miscellaneous Intelligence

... these 'ere draughts all day, pore feller !— Fun. Blackberries. —If the present abundant crop of acorns offers food only for pigs, least humanity may rejoice over a truly marvellous crop of the wild blackberry. Journeying* hither and thither, through country ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1878
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3703 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AUTUMNAL MIGRATION OF BIRDS

... These last are very fond of the beech mast. Bullfinches are very scarce this flight, principally owing to the blight in the blackberry time. There has never been known such a scarcity of these berries these 30 years. Siskins have not yet arrived, but this ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1877
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 623 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AMERICAN SUMMER DRINKS

... sugar, and water; this is also charged with gas. Mineral waters, such as lemon, strawberry, raspberry, sarsaparilla, and blackberry, are composed of nothing but sweetened water, flavoured and charged with gas. The ingredients of cherry tonic are not known ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1874
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 621 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HEAD-WORK COMPETITION

... ill-remunerated profession of schoolmaster or governess, for example. Schoolmasters, tutors, and ushers are plenty as blackberries, and the field empkryment is not largo enough for them ; and yet pupil-teachers are being trained all over the country ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1871
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 800 | Page: 4 | Tags: none