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GARDENING

... the open lorders, and is useful as a hedge plant All the privets dower in the summer, and many bear clusters of shining blackberries. Rhododendrons are propagated in various ways. The common poutioum, which has flowers of a light purple colon-, and grows ...

Published: Sunday 09 January 1881
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2131 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

LONDON, SATURDAY, February 5

... ? of m silder ssood, like the second 1 ;ilaiss jis the BIllbOs in the W 'ood, w vas help- i lga little Priseco to blackberries, abig char- i ho ulnfailing resoureo of spiritetd noblemuen. A n~ judgoeof Session, a dlignified person, wns once tl seized ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1881
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 8985 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE IN OUR DISTRICT

... do part of the family's scrambling for money, by picking wild strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and fine luscious blackberries, and standing on the road side, offering the fruit for sale to the tourists in pretty baskets, platters, or boxes of birch-bark ...

Published: Saturday 12 March 1881
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2080 | Page: 22 | Tags: News 

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY

... reality. One of the prettiest of the rmodemrin subjects is _Mr. Christie's full-length figure of a little girl gathering blackberries (3 1), to whichl he gives the title of A Rose aualong Thorns ; and in the same class of purely naturalistic art may ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1881
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1458 | Page: 19 | Tags: News 

WORDS FROM THE WORKSHOP

... officers in the army. Judges at ten thousand, eight thousand, six thousand, and five thousand a-year are as plentiful as blackberries on a hedge in autumn. As for solicitors to this, that, or the other, at salaries which dodge up and down - from £3,000 ...

Published: Sunday 11 September 1881
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2107 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

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 

THROUGH THE TURNIPS

... berries, the thorn tlees being so laden that Ob, they look like hollUies, ?? unleasantly remind .ne of Ch1ristmras. The blackberries, too, are a nutnerou,4, and in ltl sUU Lgs, from the crude the green to tle deep purple of theripe and luscioustf berry ...

Published: Friday 23 September 1881
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2197 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

PASSING NOTES

... accommodate without serious results: quantity and quality alike are considered with large and liberal comprehensiveness: unripe blackberries i and aloes which are scarcely tinted by the sun, 8 'Which would inflict diarrhcea upon an army of adults, t they devour ...

Published: Saturday 24 September 1881
Newspaper: Illustrated Police News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3786 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LONDON, THURSDAY, December 8

... is an old Celtic tale of a lad who was set impossible tasks. l Among others he had to find ripe blackberries in February. If this weather last, blackberries may be not uncommon * in February at Ventnor. As for the flowers, they blossom with a profusion ...

Published: Thursday 08 December 1881
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 9014 | Page: 5 | Tags: News