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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 care the size ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1889
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1395 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

IN THE TIME OF THE VINTAGE

... find myself in a country road, bounded on one side by fields of maize with their irrigating^ streams, and on the other by a blackberry-laden and flower-decked hedge. Farther on, in the distance, to the right, are the neighbouring hills, richly clothed with ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1888
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1806 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE BROOM-SQUIRE

... palms before her, said, The child's mouth be that purple or blue it's fits. It's blackberries, answered the seaman. They was nice and ripe, and plenty of them. Blackberries 1 almost shrieked the hostess, and the child not six weeks old You've killed her ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1895
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 4040 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

OUR LADIES PAGES: FASHIONS UP TO DATE

... bunches of wild roses and blackberries, while an inner border has a moss scroll with charming bramble foliage closely entwined, the centre-piece forming a circle of white roses and rosebuds, with centre of leaves and blackberries, all true to nature and ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2213 | Page: 53 | Tags: Illustrations 

Rural Notes: THE SEASON

... budget of the year. Apples are plentiful and good in the THE fi.ectric cables over the canai. at tonovanda South-West The blackberry season has begun, and is reckoned ten days earlier than usual. Mushrooms are scarce, but with September rains may yet be ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1897
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 954 | Page: 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

SOCIETY ON WHEELS

... year suffered continually from punctured tyres, caused by small nails, which appeared to grow upon the French roads like blackberries on a hedge. Being much puzzled to account for the prevalence of nails, he made inquiries, and was told that they had dropped ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1028 | Page: 40 | Tags: Illustrations 

Progress of Science

... pleated muslin vest of the dress. Black and white muslin frills also compose the hat, which is seasonably adorned w.th blackberries and rich-tinted foliage ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1896
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1302 | Page: 8 | Tags: Illustrations 

Seasonable Fashions: FANCY DRESS

... blossoms; June, roses of numerous shades; July, cornflowers and fancy grasses August, poppies and corn Sep tember, hops and blackberries October, nuts and autumn foliage November, chrysanthemums and December, holly and Christmas roses. Again, a pair of sisters ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1896
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1248 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

OUR RACING PROPHET

... Correct should win the Grouse Handicap; Dusky Queen, the Club Open Welter; Teufel, the Heather Plate and Roman Chief, the Blackberry Plate, should they bo sent to compete. Thursday, 4 P.M. Magnet. ...

RURAL NOTES

... remarkable experiences of n,e.\£ 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 as ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1889
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1351 | Page: 11 | Tags: Illustrations