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 

OUR PIONEERS

... woke up shivering in the morning, to find in the night the cow had eaten up his bed-clothes. Some times they had to eat blackberries from the hedges, or make a meal out of a wayside tur- nip field. Even when they did get meals in the houses they were seut ...

Published: Friday 21 January 1881
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3797 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE LADIFS' COLUMN

... 20. The amount of sugar to a quart should be:—For cherries, 6 ouncas; raspberries, 4; Lawton black- berrieR, Ij; field blackberries, 6; strawberries, 8; whortleberries, 4; quinces, 10; small sour pears, whole, 8; wild grapes, 8; peaches, 4; Bartlett pears ...

Published: Friday 21 January 1881
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1509 | Page: 6 | 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 

SIMON PINKLE'S BOY

... unruffled like a great plain of glass upon which fairies coulel merrily dance in their midnight revels, without fear of blackberry bushes and thorns injuring their gossamer robes and upon which Zethyrs could draw little Cupid in a delicate sledge of silver ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1881
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 3076 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

PROFESSOR THORPE ON THE AZORES

... of Pico; there were pumpkins and pine apples, passion flower fruit and pomegranates; peaches were almost as plentiful as blackberries; and apples and a pricots were to be had for the asking. The first member o the Azores was discovered in 1432 by the Portuguese ...

Published: Thursday 17 February 1881
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 929 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ANNUAL MARKET DINNER AT THE BULL HOTEL, WOODBRIDGE

... and that if the parsons were done away there would be fine weather, fine times generally, with golden guineas as thick as blackberries upon a hedge. (Laughter and cheers.) The noble Chairman proposed The Army, Navy, and Reserve Forces, observing that ...

Published: Saturday 19 February 1881
Newspaper: Ipswich Journal
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 5386 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

Local Topics

... which have been laid on their shoulders since their enforced annexation to the borough. Reasons were given, plentiful as blackberries, why the district of New Normanton required the outlay; and rea- sons are always ready to hand when the ratepayers grumble ...

Published: Wednesday 09 March 1881
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 987 | 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 

GOODY TWO SHOES

... the rask by a thorough esaniula- tion of the publications issued by Newbery, and which he assures us :re as scerce as blackberries in uidr'inter, now coumes forward with a view to restore to Goldistiol thrie honours of the author- ship. A certain distinct ...

Published: Monday 18 April 1881
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

PILFERINGS FROM PUNCH

... strawberries, plovers' eggs, asparagus, ortolans, and green peas are as plentiful as blackberries-more plentiful, we are glad to say, as we never relisbed blackberries; and even bankruptcy, which wae once the exclusive luxury of the aristocratic trader ...

Published: Friday 22 April 1881
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 622 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

TWM SHON CATTY

... the edge of it many times without a thought occurring of seeking him there. In this retreat lie fed himself on nute and blackberries, and in the night roved about for recreation, but returned to his green-wood shelter before day-light. Even here, Twm's ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1881
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 4021 | Page: 3 | Tags: News