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FLOWER SHOWS

... of the different flowers. In the section for fruit the entries were also numcrons, the most striking exhibits being tho blackberries and gooseberries. There was also fine collection of vegetables, potatoes #f all varieties being shown. A class of exhibits ...

Published: Monday 17 August 1885
Newspaper: Aberdeen Free Press
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1777 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

I’HE DAILY FREE PRESS, FRIDAY. AUGUST 21. 1835

... competition for bouquets there ware numerous entries. The fruit department was the j strongest of the show, the strawberries, blackberries, rasps, and red currants being all well represented by large, well-flavoured exhibits. Some good apples and cherries were ...

Published: Friday 21 August 1885
Newspaper: Aberdeen Free Press
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4850 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FLOWER SHOWS

... of the different flowers. In the section for fruit the entries were also numerous, the most striking exhibits being the blackberries and gooseberries. There was also a fine collection of vegetables, potatoes of all varietles being shown. A class of exhibits ...

MINERS’ CONFERENCE IN GLASGOW

... but the plant that seemed to awaken for the time much interest with us any other was the Rubus Schomburykii, or Horaima blackberry, which greatly resembles the English brarnblo ; gathered several bunches of the fruit, which possibly does get sweet, but ...

Published: Friday 04 September 1885
Newspaper: Aberdeen Free Press
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3525 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

POACHERS I HAVE KNOWN

... drifere 1 entlry front that earned by pteadyegoiig labour oti the Sfild or farm. In their season be gathered cress, and blackberries, aid wtits. Snipe and woodlcock, whtich cause to the arshy ituadio* ws si nret' weather. woet- taken in 'cins and opt-ltgo ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1885
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1936 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

LITERATUIIE

... surely. should feel inclined to say with Pope, “ Men may be read well books, too much.” Cany Ilodaon, with her eyes like blackberries wet with rain,” are rather enamoured. Speaking of the Boston young man of culture, she says, I’d formulate him if he came ...

Published: Friday 27 November 1885
Newspaper: Aberdeen Free Press
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2592 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AGRICULTURE. THE SMITHFIELD CHRISTMAS CATTLE SHOW,

... weighs 15 cwts. and 26 lbs., to his opponent's 12 cwt. 1 qr. and 10 lbs. Thia ox bred by exhibitor, after Gordon (1707) dam Blackberry, uncommonly grand in his back and straight as a line, but he would take making up in his underline. Mr Stephenson's Lambkin ...

Published: Tuesday 08 December 1885
Newspaper: Aberdeen Free Press
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2567 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CAUSES OF THE LIBERAL DEFEAT

... for the expectations ef mortal man ! Rejected candidates are, if net “as thick as leaves in Vallombrosa,” plentiful as blackberries. Still, painfully numerous, they bear up with a good heart, most of them. It is not the men who are out so much who snarl ...

Published: Thursday 10 December 1885
Newspaper: Aberdeen Free Press
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1074 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE PRICE OF BE&F AT ABERDEEN

... Crops,” ** Greenhouse Heating by Ga.,” are deserving of attention. A short paper on The Blackberry; ite Culture and Uses,” will attract notice. tell, how the blackberry, or bramble, cultivated in America, where it produces euormou* crop, that are sai l to ...

Published: Thursday 31 December 1885
Newspaper: Aberdeen Free Press
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1478 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

0, JANUARY i 6,

... necessitate larger and more showy flowers to attract tea = a m a of u se w thof wes them and secure cross fertilisation. Blackberry It ante ti:ter.a.rustez., so white with us, are • decided pink in quiet ftlep by 'elle:t a ng the child from pals. England ...

Published: Saturday 16 January 1886
Newspaper: Huntly Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1683 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BON-ACCORD GOSSIP

... leaving Aberdeen he will carry with him th-: best wishes of the students an rl '.he community. just IV)w are plentiful as blackberries. Bat take care, benevolent friends, that your indiscriminate dispensing charity may not after all only 4 * throwing pearls ...

Published: Thursday 25 February 1886
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1935 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ESTATE OF AUCHMEDDEN. FARM TO LET

... FOR Sale, Chrysanthemums, Carnations, Delphinium*, Miniulus of Sort', Polyanthuses, Wallflower, Roses, G«H)seSerry and Blackberry bushes, Ac. —Apply to James Henry, King Street, Peterhead. IjlOR Sale, 20 Tons CHAMPION POTATOES-the * first Crop on newly ...