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GARDENING GOSSIP

... the blackberry ; our American cousins, however, who are far more wide-a-wake than we are in a good many points, do so, and have their named varieties—L.awsons, iiittatinnies, Wilson Juniors, and so forth, and why sh old we? A well-made blackberry pudding ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1889
Newspaper: Thame Gazette
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1670 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... Mrtance to his own acts, that test had hardly afternoon train. It enough to nnected story with himself. , thick growth of blackberry bashes Md y, , j ,hould think was a very laudable desl ™>„ *** ing fitting underwood for aonie magnifies , 1 .« u absently ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1889
Newspaper: Banbury Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3762 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

H.E.H. PEINCE ALBEET YICTOE,

... early frost had changed the green bracken into gold, and out in the misty meadows, beyond the yellowing shrubberies, the blackberries swarmed upon the prickly labyrinths of bramble. Thither I hie me, with a basket on ray arm, to feast on the wild fruit ...

A HASTINGSER IN CHICAGO

... broiled, boiled, or raw. It is a dish, however, owing to its plenty, within the reach of everyone. We say, Plentiful as blackberries, though Americans might, with reason, retort, Or plentiful oysters. Of fruits I need scarcely touch upon. The banana ...

THE DRUIDS' DINNER

... SATURDAY, JANUARY sia, 1889. Althouqh this year shorn of some of *la former glories—when Members of Parliai*«^ w gere as thick blackberries, as the saying goes, high,table—this annual event passed off with success. The company was not so numerous as ou some previous ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1889
Newspaper: Oxford Times
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 510 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A Bum. — A blackbird has found the winter eafficiently mild as to be induced to build her nest at

... be butt, but children possibly may get scratched, as it is bidden away in hedges, where they would naturally clamber for blackberries. Here, too, in lundon, it has lately been placed round the palings of the Regent'apark, with no other purport, apparently ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1889
Newspaper: Bucks Advertiser & Aylesbury News
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 780 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SUSSEX RAINFALL; leak

... weather. The pastures were soturated with moisture that no mushrooms were produced, and even the poor man's fruit, the blackberries, generally so plentiful in our lanes, failed to come to maturity. With regard to the total rainfall, it may be a little ...

Published: Tuesday 08 January 1889
Newspaper: Mid Sussex Times
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 621 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CHAPTER I.— Continued

... was running back to the house, I met the General taking his evening stroll. Uulloa! where have you been, Mattie?” asked. Blackberry big, grandpa.” hands, face, and frock proved that, well my basket. “Where?” tho river.” fold yo«i not to go near that nver ...

OUR LOOKER-ON

... not what fog is, but how it is to be got rid of or evaded. If it is as much a product of our climate as mushrooms and blackberries, what is the use of devoting time to its examination ? Even the County Councils will not relieve us of fog; nay, it is ...

Published: Wednesday 23 January 1889
Newspaper: Maidenhead Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1537 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AS THEIR FATHERS DID

... Y listen for it at es As I muse and sweet fancies weave.Su I fancy I see in the twilight a youth ere le Coming up by the blackberry patch, dort And I list flor thle sound of his footsteps and dream det ? That I hear the click o' the latch. thi Oh, the ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1889
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1395 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

CRADLED IN A STORM:

... that excitivg Oxford and Cambridge boat-race with two logs of wood, afterwards sealing our acquaintance with a feast of blackberries. How well I remembered the day, and since them what an immense deal we have both been through ! Presently my thoughts went ...

raPY* l 9/ 1 4 KEPT SECRET. BY MRS. J. K. BPENl►tlt, Anthot of Her Brother's Keeper, Parted Lives,

... to meet Sir George Hanterton, as he cause by the itLerniton train. It waseasy enough to conceal herself. A thick growthof blackberry bushes anti holly, Miming a fitting underwood fur some magnificent oaks end beeches which grew in the hollows of the park ...