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TURNIP GROWING AND THE PRODUCTION OF SEED

... for buying tIe seed by. If a magnifying glass of sufficient power is used to shew every turnip seed the size of a large blackberry, the farmer will plainly see that by slowing some seed (such as I have got samples of) he cannot expect a crop of turnips ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1871
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3484 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

OUR LADIES' COLUMN

... scenting the hedges. Ihave gathered sec BRNseveral wild loses, and yet the overhanging buishes are ,aONfull of anuts, and blackberries are gotting ripe. The die -tinction of seasons seems utterly merged in this year's- Iteerratic climate. Whilst thoroughly ...

Published: Monday 22 September 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4145 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

—-~ tl 11 ,i «Imi from Bruwbiu „ „ »n.l the cliaiirt containeil not o-,* Fochrin (.Urtt> J»«. Mai»'n...«: «

... best button-hole Bouquet William Buchan. Mr Win. Robertson, Auquborsk, (id for best basket Fruit, inclinling gooseberries, blackberries, str iwberries, rasi>berries, half pint each Mrs Wyllle. Mr James Keith, merchant, M 1-r best hand Bouquet - - Donald, ...

Published: Monday 13 August 1877
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3524 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

VIEW OF TH

... show juries took third honours. ' Era was the second prize -taker. owned by Sir George Macpherson Grant. The third cow, Blackberry, is a line beast, and was first at Glasgow lash year in the two-year-old class. The Earl of Fife likewise exhibited Blackbird ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1876
Newspaper: Aberdeen Herald
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4042 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

COMMERCIAL NOTES

... sloe;v fitberfs and Kentish caiteuts, Od to 9d ; Sztpucale nuts from South An'erica, Is Gel per lb.; hazel do., Id ; and blackberries, Sdi oper quart'; wal nuts, Is 13d to Ss 'id; ,and ebeenfut, -is ad to 6i f Gd per hundred. Flowers-Chaice plauts ,istfull ...

THE PEOPLE’S JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1878

... for literary pursuits permeated the mass of the population, and the result in our own day that poets are as plentiful as blackberries. We could point to scores working men who have composed poems which a century or two ago would have won for their authors ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1878
Newspaper: Aberdeen People's Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4980 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LONDON POTATO, Monday.— Plentiful nppiy new fonin potatoes, and trade ia eery slew 8« per cwt. for *ll ..

... orchards:—Apricots, lx*rrien, straw tierrie*. tormy all the boat# are out to-day. and this week the 1 « ln Wellington Road, blackberries, ra*pberries, currants, cherries (the r •bins will really commence for the season. Batnr- ...

Published: Tuesday 15 July 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4472 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

COMMERCIAL NOTES

... appl es and pears, 3s ng to se; do. plums. 4s Gd; and damsons, 8s to l0s per st- sieve; mulberries, is Gd per basket; and blackberries, -kr Sd per pint. Flowers : Choice plants and exotica ilk ,re blossom, 5s to l0s Gd; China asters, se Gd to 5s pen pot; ...

EXAMINATION OF CAPTAIN MACLEOD

... i. a fine light roan, is got by Admiral tod n year aud month. •or- out M Hyacinth. Albury, WIU by Bachelor (690), out of Blackberry the Duke of Northumberland, is grand bull, nch m • w h (w( , lire wa. Moudiewort (656). Strange to promise. Me has fine ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1877
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5979 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SHOWS

... ce ut of visitors was very large. The first prize specimen of i mt cucumbers from Mayen House was greatly admired. ;be Blackberries and bleock currants were excellent, as were eat were also strawberries and rasps for the season The Is.) special prize ...

AGRICULTURE

... Mr Hamilton, of Skene House, is also i the owner of this animal. His name is Samson, isy afte: B, clielor, andl ofi of Bl-ackberry. Ho secured a c second place at the Highland Society's show eit E tin- burg~h; hDut was only conmmended at the Royal NIorthern ...