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NATURAL HISTORY NOTES

... judgment. In the tower of the church, all round the ledge where the steeple rests on the wai., they place their as thick as blackberries, and the angles, for lack of judgment, their nests overbalance very after they are°nnished and have eggs in them. This ...

Published: Friday 29 January 1869
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2414 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DISTRICT NEWS• B T. Helm inestepie, tie Rev. Walter Fond's, It is In oaten quarters that the Tails the and

... there reap new he seen strawberries in blooms in the lb. H. Bryan poesy and dealer, wbo informs us that he piloted several blackberries in • fair stAte of ripening about • fortnight linos. BISHOPSTAWTON. LONOVITT.—Asother instance of longevity occurred in ...

Published: Friday 19 February 1869
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 1530 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LOCAL JOTTINGS

... a-year. For the office (which became vacant through the resignation of Mr. Cornelius) there I were candidates plenty as blackberries, one, at least, being bard to work canvassing before the office had become vacant—a piece of sharp practice which has rzo ...

Published: Friday 23 April 1869
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 1855 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Tows GAZDENINCI

... purple flowers it of t he hedge-row. Like the common elder (which we noticed in the la-t chapter) its flower, give place to blackberries. which become ripe in autumn. They are purgative and emetic. It is readily distinguished from the other species, by its ...

Published: Friday 25 June 1869
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 1454 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

couNrny WALKS AMONG THE YLYWERS

... dowers with othersot the hedge-row. Like the common elder (which we noticed iu the last chapter) Its flowers give place to blackberries, which become ripe in autumn. They are purgative aud emetic. It is readily distinguished (live,other anti being two or ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1869
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 1526 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. Lorton, August 12, 1869. The House is up! Tae most eventful sesaion that we hers had for

... which forms the solid basis of legislative aptitude. Some will ; but others lock upon the tree of knowledge as they do a blackberry bush—too common to partake of its fruits. Nut for Spooney, oh ! dear no ! Ib, sr that Mr. Baines, who introduced the Libel ...

Published: Friday 13 August 1869
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 1742 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

AGRICULTURE, GARDENING, etc

... hut there is another plant well known and greatly esteemed by everybody for Be fruit it is the wurtle-berry—bilberry or blackberry Truly a pleasant thing it to climb the hillside on a summer's day, and then among gigantic ferns and gorgeous foxelovevenjoy ...

Published: Friday 03 September 1869
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 2455 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE FARMERS' JOURNAL

... plough-horses, the next he is at dung-cart, and the third minding birds or crow- keeping, which means birds'-nesting, or blackberry- hunting, or anything else, while the master is out of sight. The apprenticeship which should form port of the technical ...

Published: Wednesday 08 September 1869
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 10602 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

DISTRICT NEWS

... seem to have been (applause). They have oalled up a host of friends, whioh have cropped np like mushrooms and plentiful blackberries —(a laugh). I hope and trust and bolieve that they will prove more lasting than Jonah's gourd, which grew up a night perished ...

Published: Friday 10 September 1869
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 12814 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... accident occurred on Saturday afternoon on the Cornwall Railway between Devoaport and Saltash. Three little boys had picking blackberries, and returned by way of Camel's Head Viaduct. Whilst walking across the bridge a train approached. One of them, named Crews ...

Published: Tuesday 21 September 1869
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2012 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... Alfred George C-uze, who waa killed Saltash oa Saturday. The deceased and two companions were on their way to pick soma blackberries. When n«ar Ca.mels Head they got on tha line and deceased seeing a train approaching he became frightened, ran along between ...

Published: Friday 24 September 1869
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1755 | Page: 6 | Tags: none