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MR. GLADSTONE ON FRUIT FARMING

... tons; blackberry, 100 tons. They can be bought from ready-money grocers in two and three-pound stoneware jars, at the following prices :-Goseberry, 5d. to 6&d. per lb.; raspberry. 6d. to 6id.; strawberry, Gd, to Gid.; black currant, 5d. ; blackberry, 5hd ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1884
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 469 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

MR. GLADSTONE ON FRUIT FARMING

... German, and )f American frit-growers. -d All the gooseberries raspberries, strawberries, black our. t- rants, damoons, and blackberries need by me are entirely )f English-no foreign whatever being uied-and to prove ao that the quantity in not particularly ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1884
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 563 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

DERBYSHIRE WEATHER SIGNS

... devil cast his club over the blackberries before the month of September was out, then expect a bad winter, said our oracles. The 'devil's club is an early frost whioh spoils in a single night the whole crop of blackberries, and is considered, apart from ...

Published: Wednesday 17 August 1892
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 742 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE WINTER IN SOUTH DEVON. TO Tilt EDITOR THK TlMti. Sir.—That our much-extolled climate ii not praised vain may, I

... gooseberry mod strawberry blossom, and even fruit of the latter has been gathered lately; in the hedges the fruit of the blackberry is not uofrequently seen, and close beside it may be found that most welcome of all our wild flowers—the primrose. may add ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1859
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

REMARKABLE SWINDLING BY A [ill] BOY

... the ?? ?? I: n' ?? the oth of the present mtonth the ?? .r 1 i father's shop, and brought a ...

Published: Wednesday 19 October 1892
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 743 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... the old year,a youth called Nelder, of this town, picked a very fine bunch of lefl. ripe blackberries on Exeter-hill ; and on New Year'S flay ite- several blackberries and a fine bunch of ripe ones were also Ifound sn the hedge-rows near the Oltery-road ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1864
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4522 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

DERBY LICENSED VICTUALLERS' BALL

... Highland Schottische ; quadrille, Over- tore; valse, Stella Mia. Supper dances: Valse, L'Estndiantina ; polka, Blackberries; valse, Lea Sonrires. Circassian Circle ; lancers, . Car- men ; polka, Je T'adore ; quadrille, . lolan- the; ...

Published: Wednesday 09 February 1887
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 358 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT DEBBY

... -were found yE F to thle woman anod children were seen walking along the G I to canal bank. The children were gathering blackberries Of ,by- at the time, and the men heard the woman talking to her h( ?? children. Later on the three sat down on the towing ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1877
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1747 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MR. GLADSTONE ON FRUIT FARMING

... :-Gooseberry, 800 tons; raspberry, 800 tons - lose strawberry, 200 tons; black eurrant,'400 tons * damson, 600 aei- tons; blackberry, 100 tons. They can be bought from ready-money% grocera in two and three-pound stoneware was jars, at the following prices ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1884
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1351 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

WIRKSWORTH WELL DRESSINGS

... with joints nf swepp beads. At the hea l was a square frieze b-earing the words, ' 0 Lord, hor great, are thy wvorks, in blackberries on a ground of rice, and underneath the ?? a circular head in blue bells. white daisy and 14burnum with the key stone in ...

Published: Wednesday 04 June 1890
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 847 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

Summary

... notes was seized and destroyed, The blackberry crop in Kent this season is an exoep- tionally large one, and the fruit. owing to the hot sun and high temperature, is of very fine quality, In a few instances blackberries are preserved in bottles or made into ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1890
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1785 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

LIFE IN QUEENSLAND

... country for cultivation if it was properly managed. Any kild of vegetables will grow; grapes grow here as plentiful as blackberries In England, and one acre of land here is worth flve times she amount in New Zealand. I saw f no prospect in keeping my ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1862
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 863 | Page: 6 | Tags: News