“ENGLISH” FRUIT

... would scarcely own any relationship with the puny productions of our soil few generations ago. Our native fruits then were blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, currants, and perhaps gooseberries. There were also some kinds of nuts, and there were crab ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1886
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1559 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A LADY'S LETTER. ♦ OREAT o►At. has been mid Irately about the curt style of dress for country house parties,

... in coarse 't ted straw, turned up with velvet of same shade, the crown in black straw. and the trim. ming a big hunch of blackberries. It was an ideal example of autumn headgear, both as regarded the colour and fruit. The crown of a different colour to ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1886
Newspaper: Renfrewshire Independent
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1699 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OCCASIONAL NOTES

... Author of tiny Leioh,” Gkaiiam Delaware’s Wife,” &c., &c. CHAPTER IV.— A Woman’s Hand. A rider came at headlong speed down Blackberry lane in the November afternoon. The trees were leafless now where once they had cast long, cool shadows, the air was keen ...

Published: Wednesday 15 December 1886
Newspaper: Kirkintilloch Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1436 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PICKINGS

... not ex. cesaively dry. - - - - - - - CDT out the =sightly branches of currant bushes, the old canes of raspberries and blackberries, and see that they are staked and tied. Prune mspe-vines now. Rid strawberry beds of weeds. Mellow the soil, and after ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1886
Newspaper: Glasgow Weekly Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1717 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GOSSIP Oil DEESS

... jet as a crowning point which closely resembles brandy snap in form. No strings, but kept in place by large-beaded jet blackberry pins. a rule, bonnet strings are not worn for full dress. The hair is arranged high, and the capote is perched on the top ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1886
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1633 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Etter Mork STILLWATER TRAGEDY

... a carisoioes vomit. No, oboermod Dortor. a man vanish*. I. that auddom way hos body is generally found to a clump of blackberry hushes, mouth. afterwards, or loft on flata by au .bb tide. - Two mard.r. in Stillwater is on. month would be pother crovrdiag ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1886
Newspaper: Evening Gazette (Aberdeen)
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1572 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS

... September morning, when the st,ll green were all glittering with dew, end brig`t webs of silver gossamer sparkled on the blackberry bushes. an so ro and a mushroom found themselves by side. The mushroom was tall and fresh-looking, and thought a deal cf ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1886
Newspaper: Leith Herald
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1619 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MtNZIKS SOCIETY

... s, fa ‘There wore several on exhibition, which considerably eu- good, Fruit wase ee a Vegetables were on the whole and blackberries were very good. Honey was ‘The exhibition of poultry, though not so pee judges were :—For poaltry—Mr T. Raines, Stirling ...

Published: Monday 09 August 1886
Newspaper: Dundee Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1525 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ALPINE ADVENTURE. NARROW ESCAPE OF A TOURIST AND TWO GUIDES. Herr F. Burckhardt, member of the Baale section ' of

... alone with the *® lir children, and she lost no time in sending her husband’s two little ones into the woods to gather blackberries. Then, going to the bed where her own children lay, she lifted the baby cautiously, so not to disturb her seven year-old ...

Published: Tuesday 27 July 1886
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1678 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CORTACHY

... There were several flowers only on exdibition, which considerably eu- hanced the show. ‘emetables were ou the whole and blackberries were very ood. Fruit wasa fair show, though strawberries 7 was good ‘The exhibition of poultry, though not so good as the ...

Published: Tuesday 10 August 1886
Newspaper: Dundee Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1416 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

THE HIGHLAND and agriculti;ral society. SHO.W AT DUMFRIES! a Special Correspondent. Saturday evening. the ..

... Northern Agricultural Society at Aberdeen-Veronica out of Violet of Montbletton ; hatauella, out of Sarah of Glami# ; and Blackberry, out Blanche of Adyie, and all got 1939. lordahip has ako, of course, sent his very fine yearlmg heifer Buttercup 2nd bv ...

Published: Monday 26 July 1886
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1622 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE BUTTERINE TRADE

... Or I too lenient! Does be reason all, is he that disdainful nature that scorns giro reason though they were “plenty as blackberries?” Be this it may. the dash of seeming nirobleness about bis mental gymnastics must have its due reward—from ths vulgar ...

Published: Monday 18 October 1886
Newspaper: Glasgow Evening Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1433 | Page: 4 | Tags: none