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THE HOME OF SHAKSPEARE

... time. Who will give to Shakepeare a hardy vine-one that will bear him the Ipurple grapes9 Almonds, apricots, bilberries, blackberries, crabs, quinces, walnuts, and medlars are still to come. Who will help to make up these lists ? Some we may never hope ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1861
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2545 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ACCLIMATISATION OF ANIMALS IN AUSTRALIA

... Daring the past year, the c breadfruit tree, from the Fiji Islands, the beautiful lace- I plant of Madagascar, the Canadian blackberry, and several t rare species of pines, have been introduced into the gardens, c and are in a thriving state. Sir Hercules ...

Published: Thursday 18 April 1861
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1681 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ALL SINECURES ABOLISHED

... tired allowances, and other devicee for tho extension of out-door relief, are atill thick as leaves in Vallambrosa, or blackberries in autumn. Accordixg. to Mr. Hame's return, of 1849, they amounted then to 975,849L an- nually, exclusive of annuities ...

Published: Sunday 05 May 1861
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 698 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

THE NATIONAL ART UNION

... do. Figures, Indolence. '3 4 do. do. The Bather. tn 4 do. do. Lurline. 4 do. do. Hermiene. n 4 Copies of The Blackberry Jug, (gilt). h S Pairs of Statuettes, Before and after the Wind. 6 Statuettes, *'hMeditation, (gilt). 6 do. Venus ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1861
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 843 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE AMERICANS AND OURSELVES. —UNSEEMLY BLUSTER OF THE FORMER

... the least relish for this species of persuasion. When Sir John Falstaff declared that, if reasons were as plen- tiful as blackberries, he would not give one tpon comn- pulsion, he expressed a sentimesnt which every English- man will enderse, and with which ...

Published: Sunday 09 June 1861
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2553 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

THE GARDEN.—By MR. GLENNY

... duce the few passable but still faulty polyantlhses, we have no right to expect that improvements will be plen- tiful as blackberries. We are just now watching st-b great interest the opening of Hoit's celebrated sweet- william seedlings, and it is pleasing ...

Published: Sunday 23 June 1861
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1981 | Page: 11 | 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 

A NEW FISHING GROUND

... length, swarming with fish. ] have been two orth ree times becalmed there, and caught cod as bigas donkeys, and as plenty as blackberries. Upon that information Captain Rhodes acted. He has often thought of trying it, but it is a precious lonely place to go ...

Published: Sunday 04 August 1861
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 994 | Page: 2 | 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 

Birmingham Daily Post

... been satiated during the last few days. Railways acoidents murders, executions, and burnings have been as plentiful as blackberries. Of fires we have some sad records. Two occurred in London simdl- taneopsly ; and. in one which took place in Kent Street ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1861
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2932 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... Of Filedhouse. Cumberland, took v ~.his son, ahboy four years old, with himn.to a corn field, and fo left him gathering blackberries. In about five minutes after, ea the father returned and found his son hanging on a gate all a which had been placed to ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1861
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4682 | Page: 3 | Tags: News