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... perhaps to deposit their spawn. BLAcBEER13mE-A woman and her child gathered in the neighbourhood of Ormskirk 100 quarts of blackberries in four days, last week, and sold them for 16s. Sd. They are abundant this year. SOUTHPORT.-The number of houses in Southport ...

Published: Saturday 25 September 1858
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
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LATEST AND TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

... business of the port of London, both as regards imports and exports, continues inactive. BLICKBERRIE-S IN JANUAnY.-Ripe blackberries were found on Sunday in a hedge on the road to Carriekforgu.-Northcon Wlx. The fund collected for the benefit of the family ...

Published: Tuesday 01 February 1859
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
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MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... -A lad was nearly poisoned last week near the town of Sevenoaks, in Kent, by eatint berries of nightshade in mistake for blackberries. TEE VCTORIA BELL AT THE LEEDS TOWN HALL.- The size of this bell, which has recently been cast, is six feet two inches ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5805 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

GARIBALDI AT HOME

... pear trees, laden with fruit, festoons of vi wild vines bending under the weight of their grapes, hi shrubs of barberry, blackberry, and dog rose; in iShort, everything seems to be assembled here to do tl homage to the king of the forest, thelofty pinse ...

Published: Friday 21 October 1859
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 2221 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... reality belong to the category of penal offemices.. Fancy WINES.-Wine may be made from the currant, rhubarb, strawberry, blackberry, raspberry, and goose- berry, of excellent quality. Inferior but quite palatable wines may be made from parsnip acid many ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5417 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE RULE OF HIGH MILITARY PROMOTION

... some distinguished mark of favour. There are things too common with us for honour and reward. Brave men are as abundant as blackberries, and duty is an absolute drug, it therefore becomes necessary to select objects of favour clear of these vulgar claims ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1860
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2034 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURE & GARDENING

... ; or a few trees may be set comiipactly fifteen feet apart, and the space they would shade be used for raspberries and blackberries. There is the lane, too, lead- ing to the pasture, which might well have a row of apple or pear trees upon each side, *hich ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1860
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1645 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... as it may, they leave the bushes very naked wherever they visit. Cures, or methods of preventure, are as plentiful as blackberries, but, unfortunately, such cures are liable to fail. Alum, lime, hellebore, broom, and elder have all been praised as perfect ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3406 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

RAMBLES BY THE RIBBLE

... hur~sbed in random luxuriance, and which Was -also fre- Oth ud quont in the neighbouring hedges. The bramible, or 6th Ite blackberry family (Rusbus), bad also several representa- ver tives: Te wood straberry (FIragaria ve.5ca) was abtin- 8utt ld dant. It ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3126 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Borrowed Cristies

... *and headed it, A wretched attempt at wit. A New Orleans papcr of last January boasted gold was as pentiful there as blackberries. The editor forgot to tenl how abandsut bhlacehberies are in Nowv Orleans in midwinter. IsIMPARTIAI.11Y.- This is a vcry ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

VANCOUVER'S ISLAND AS A FIELD FOR AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISE

... the maple and poplar trees are very tall and straight and average 10 feet in circumference. i That among the fruits, the blackberry, mulberry, raspberry, strawberry, gooseberry, currant, and high bush cranberry, would require little pains or culture to ...

Published: Monday 07 April 1862
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1385 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN NEWS

... bloodhounds been so fiercely on the scent as within the last few days. Transportations to Siboyia have becomo as frequent as blackberries; and as for runishment in a Russian gaol far away from the woody tracts of Poland and the sound of its laiguago, ?? if ...

Published: Saturday 21 June 1862
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 19128 | Page: 3 | Tags: News