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SCILLY, THROUGH THE MISTS OF 20 YEARS

... country, of St. Mary’s, just above the Bar and facing the islet wocre their treasure lay. (I have been there pick- ing blackberries with Mr. James Jenkin, Philip and Joe Jenkin, many times on Saturday holidays.) The day was fine, the ferns were a yard ...

Published: Thursday 03 June 1897
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1321 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MARKETS

... Vert Early.—Yet in Time for StL Valentine!—Jlr. William Carpenter, of Xew-street, Penzance, picked two floral sprays of blackberry-blossom (rvbit* fruticosus) at St. Erth on Monday, February CSt. Valentine's day !) Dame Nature's valentine, forsooth, is ...

Published: Thursday 17 February 1898
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1164 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MARKETS

... to 2s 6d ; ducks 2s bd to 3s 3d each ; butter Is alb ; eggs 9d a dozen ; apples 2d to 4d a gallon; plums 81bs for Is ; blackberries 6d a quart. A plentiful supply of vegetables, at very reasonable prices. Truro, Saturday.—Beef 6d to 8W; veal 6d to 8d: ...

Published: Thursday 03 August 1893
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1254 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LOCAL MISCELLANY

... with a i Dynamite cap. An accident of a painful character ' occurred on Wednesday at St. Agnes. Three boys were picking blackberries near Wheal Kitty, when one of them found a dynamite cap with the fuse attached. One of the boys having a match hi ...

Published: Thursday 29 August 1895
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1408 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FARM AND GARDEN

... the boots. They will polish perfectly with ordinary blacking after using it. Apple and Blackberry Jam—Allow one pound of apples to two of berries. Pnt the blackberries into a stone mortar, and beat, so as to g*»t the hard seed partly away. Put all into ...

Published: Thursday 24 August 1899
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 3286 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A WEEK IN THE WEST COUNTRIES

... pathies. Cornish folk do not care for them, Irish folk will not eat them ; nor do the former care for silver eel. Moreover, blackberries are remarkably fine and plentiful; but the Irish will not gather them even to sell! Paul Curnow. Every individual of the ...

Published: Thursday 10 August 1893
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1456 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FARM AND GARDEN

... FARM AND GARDEN. Even the milk one Jersey a herd improves the colour of the whole of the butter made. Blackberries are fine and ripe, and so abundant year that they ought to very cheap. Thistles on arable land may be often exterminated in a season or ...

Published: Thursday 29 September 1892
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1411 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

The Cornishman

... open space. At fair times cattle had stood on the sward and bovs hunted for birds’ nests and picked It was a convenience ‘blackberries among the bushes. also forthe tempomary deposit of road-scrapings or metal. For 60 years, certain, it had been open to ...

Published: Thursday 22 January 1891
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1469 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MARKETS

... dozen; tomatos 4d per lb;_ cherries lb; almonds 5d a lb; walnut* 4d ; Brazils 5d ; Barcelona? 4d; grapes lOd to per lb; blackberries 4d per basin; pears 2d* each; plums 8dlb; celery 4d each; marrows 2d each; uew turnips bunch; carrots a bunch; onions Id ...

Published: Thursday 29 September 1898
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1237 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MARKETS

... to 1s 9d a dozen hd a bunch ; cabbages 1d each ; red cabbages 2.1 to 44 v tetauble marrows 3d each ; mushrooms 34 a lb; blackberries 3d a qa apples 5d to 9d a gallon. ta Potatos 6d to 7d a gallon ; English grapes is spinach 2d a bunch: flour 22s 6d to ...

Published: Thursday 14 October 1897
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1364 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE TWO PROCESSIONS

... self and Lina. When it was possible she worked at mine. She cut on the wastelands and made brooms of them ; she picked blackberries in autumn and soid them to such folk as had no children to pick the fruit for pastime. Often she starved. But Lina had ...

Published: Thursday 11 June 1891
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1658 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PENZANCE

... few doses o! Symons' Pectoral Conch Syrnp, li. and 2a. 9d. per bottle, post free.—2T. H. S?moDs,chemist. Penzance.— A dv Blackberries were being sold about Penzance on Tuesday—a mouth before the ordinary season. Mr. Bes i ICHOLLS has been engaged to pilot ...

Published: Thursday 23 July 1896
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1465 | Page: 4 | Tags: none