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FLOWER SHOW AT KENNETHMONT

... George Duncan being exceedingly tastefully got up. Fruit and vegetables, not a large display, were of average quality, blackberries, rhubarb, and peas being specially good classes. In the industrial work depart' ment, the girls made a very creditable ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1886
Newspaper: Huntly Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1190 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE SHOW

... Mr James Duncan, Tochineal House, was deservedly placed high in the prisolist for his exhibit of currants, his sample of blackberries, which awarded Mr Brown's special prize, being remarkably fine. ...

HOLIDAYING IN THE STATES

... minister and a learned judge, were camping in a ertiny cottage, set in a most lovely spot, a tangle of es underbrush and blackberry vines growing up to the very doorway. Little brown squirrels-so tame that ve at our approach they ran down the trees to ...

Published: Monday 27 September 1886
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 816 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

JOTTINGS

... mull-berry, By bringing your bill-berry. Your father the elder-berry, Was not such a goose-berry. ! you need not look so black-berry, For 1 don't care a straw-berry.' ...

Published: Thursday 24 June 1886
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 756 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A MECHANIC S EXPERIENCE

... September I.—Next morning, seeing there was chance of any work in Leicester. I walked to Coventry, eating on the road a few blackberries from the hedges. I got to Coventry about seven o'clock, and sold two pairs of socks and shirt for nmepence, and went to ...

Published: Saturday 02 October 1886
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 996 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

The Evening Express

... while the arrangements were in progress. 1 rom that ■ time exhibitions small and great have been, !if not as common as blackberries, general i enough, and they are multiplying now at a rate which suggests that the hobby jis being over-ridden. The chief ...

Published: Wednesday 05 May 1886
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1146 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AN ALPINE ADVENTURE

... left alone with the four children, and she Let no time in sending her hasband's two little ones into the woods to gather blackberries Then, going to the bed where her own children lay, she lifted the baby hp cautiously, so as not to disturb her reven.year•old ...

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... consisted of only 229 members. But from n.D. 1760 to the accession of Queen Victoria hooours and titles became as thick as blackberries. Then was the halcyon time for aspiring Commoners who sold their votes for coronet Between 1760 and 1820—s period of ...

THE SCOTTISH THISTLE

... hardly-suit the minute requirements of those micro- to ecopical observers who distinguish some 40 kinds of tbh native British blackberries. However, it has been ami-i ably d4cided in the long run that the heraldic by symbol of Scotland, that proud plant which ...

Published: Tuesday 10 August 1886
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1221 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LADIES’ COLUMN. , ;i‘v* s- «•.

... purple, and white, ready for catting. Moonstones Mid croeidolites, opals and garnets, onyx and annstones, all as plentiful blackberries, and stored as informally if they were bat jacks tones. Once more are approaching that midwinter season that tries the ...

Published: Thursday 18 November 1886
Newspaper: Stonehaven Journal
County: Kincardineshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1286 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOLIDAYING IN THE STATES

... neighbours, minister and learned judge, were camping a tiny cottage, set in a most lovely spot, a tangle of underbrush and blackberry vines growing to the very doorway. Little brown squirrels—so tame that our approach they ran doten the trees to see were ...

Published: Monday 27 September 1886
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1297 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

“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