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GOING A-BLACKBERRYING

... same dog-fox Ulysses is not proved worth a blackberry. Once more the blackberry is not without its folk-lore, and there is a popular superstition that the Devil always puts his cloven foot upon the blackberries on Michaelmas Day, and on this account it ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1881
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1354 | Page: 19 | Tags: News 

RURAL NOTES

... warm weather at the end of August and first fortnight of September. The drawback of blackberry bushes is their attracting trespassers. It may be added that the blackberry responds to cultivation, and we believe that with a little botanical caie the size ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1398 | Page: 30 | Tags: News 

THE READER

... of Paris and (Enone gathering it for lunch. Its brother, the blackberry, is successfully cultivated in America. Why not at home? for though Mr. Fish says Many of the New World blackberries are said to almost equal our raspberries in flavour, we think ...

THEATRES

... column, will be the chief item in the programme. It will be preceded by a new and original musical comedietta, entitled Blackberries. The regular season at the HAYMARKET having closed, the Vaughan-Conway comedy' company will commence at this theatre to-night ...

THEATRES

... the month of August may be doubtful, but the comedy is uriquestionably-successful. The new musical comedietta, entitled Blackberries, at the COMEDY Theatre has not won golden opinions from any sort of people, but the new management are at least fortunate ...

AT TEWKESBURY

... here and there by an atom of white, that shows us where the acrid wild plum will be found in the autumn, when doubtless blackberries will also abound about the low-growing bushes, that in their turn are also newly-dressed in emerald leaves. The soft white ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1885
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1252 | Page: 24 | Tags: News 

THEATRES

... really droll and original piece of the elaborately far-ical kind-has been transferred to the ROYALTY, in association with Blackberries, in which latter piece Miss Alice Atherton pla3s very cleverly. It is unfortunate, though we believe ?? hle, that in 7itrized ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1886
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1226 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

New Novels

... to be hoped that there no~ ;licence in the matter beyond those literary coincidences v ricir 2 a l*ecumring as common as blackberries. Wife, or No LA Ic * itot be regarded as worthy of the author of 'The M cur, l f IHerors Dyke, and is one of the i ...

THE PARTRIDGE

... summer they have, in addition, grubs, beetles, and inwects. In autumn they have their share of the grain harvest, of the blackberries, which are then so plentiful in the hedgerows, and of the tender parts of the still-growing clover. In winter they manage ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1886
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1288 | Page: 25 | Tags: News 

RURAL NOTES

... remarkable experiences of new crops. His first idea, derived from a daily paper of unques- tioned sobriety, was to grow blackberries for jam-making. He bought a number of first-class brambles, which were to bear, so the nursery gardeners said, fruit ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1345 | Page: 15 | Tags: News 

A LONDON COLLEGE

... niiscellaneous items a- theology, veterinary surgery, and the higher education of women. colleges of the new style are as ?? as blackberries ; the old style was something different, the buildings were historical, the P)(ns were historical, and-most important of ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1886
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1432 | Page: 25 | Tags: News 

RECOLLECTIONS OF ROYATLES-BAINS

... cindery lanes-for you are treading on extinct volcanos everywhere-with their tremendous grasshoppers, and their luscious blackberries. If you do this, and shirk the waters, then Royat does you a power of good. My uppermost recollection of Royat is, of course ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1889
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1701 | Page: 24 | Tags: News