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ASPARAGUS

... ASPARAGUS ASPARAGUS cutting started on some of the local farms last Sunday. I believe it is about three weeks late. It is on sale in Liverpool. Though not plentiful, it is costly. Fair-sized bundles can be had for ten shillings, which is cheap when I ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1944
Newspaper: Formby Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 215 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Asparagus Beetle

... The Asparagus Beetle Sir.—ln the article in the Formby Times last week on the asparagus beetle I fear that you have misunderstood and misquoted Mr. G. de C. IFraser's remarks. _ The Coleas Croceus Butterfly which I caught was Variety Hence, a variety ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1947
Newspaper: Formby Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 126 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Asparagus Tip

... Asparagus Tip Asparagus farmers, faced with one of the worst seasons for years, have a grouse. Crop is late. But the market has already been flooded with foreign asparagus. As a result the price has I dropped from roughly Ts. 6d. to half -a-crown. Fo;n ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1947
Newspaper: Formby Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 195 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

National Mark Scheme for Asparagus

... 1911 for the marketing under the National Mark of asparagus grown in England and Wales. Asparagus, says the leaflet, is in the front rank of high-priced vegetables and the quality of English asparagus in particular leaves little to be desired by connoisseurs ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1933
Newspaper: Formby Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 446 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Growers Band To Fight Beetle Menace ASPARAGUS CROP IS THREATENED FACED with the prospect of ruin from the ..

... Growers Band To Fight Beetle Menace ASPARAGUS CROP IS THREATENED FACED with the prospect of ruin from the asparagus beetle and sand-weevil fly, asparagus growers in Formby decided on Thursday to band together to light the menace. This was the result of ...

Published: Saturday 26 February 1949
Newspaper: Formby Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 94 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WIPE OUT BEETLE PEST IS AIM ASPARAGUS GROWERS UNITE VOR the first time in the history of Formby's asparagus trade,

... WIPE OUT BEETLE PEST IS AIM ASPARAGUS GROWERS UNITE VOR the first time in the history of Formby's asparagus trade, the leading growers in the district met on Wednesday night to form an association. QUEEN'S William Gargan and Nancy Kelly are teamed in ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1949
Newspaper: Formby Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 94 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Students Help Asparagus Growers To Beat 'The, Dreaded Beetle

... Students Help Asparagus Growers To Beat 'The, Dreaded Beetle XPERIMENTS to find 14 the most vulnerable part of the dreaded asparagus beetle's life have been started by some Manchester University students. If their extermination experiment shows fresh ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1949
Newspaper: Formby Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 227 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

'Asparagus King Goes West WIDELY known as The Asparagus King, Mr. Stanley E. Lowe, of Rivington, Cable Street, ..

... 'Asparagus King Goes West WIDELY known as The Asparagus King, Mr. Stanley E. Lowe, of Rivington, Cable Street, who made Formby a household word at family tables throughout Britain, has gone to the United States. With his wife, Mr. Lowe said farewell ...

Published: Saturday 08 November 1947
Newspaper: Formby Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 135 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CROPS ATTACKED BY ASPARAGUS PEST No •Cure says Expert

... CROPS ATTACKED BY ASPARAGUS PEST No •Cure says Expert DAMAGE done to local asparagus crops this summer by the ravages of the asparagus beetle—almost as great a menace as the more famous Colorado beetle which attacks potato plants—is estimated at hundreds ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1947
Newspaper: Formby Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 332 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Salute—With Asparagus I Formby saluted its first soldier last Saturday with asparagus! Council Chairman J. A. ..

... Formby asparagus, gibed good-humouredly at COM. King-Hall's attempts to grow asparagus at his Hampshire horne, and the Commander's assertions that it was batter than the Formby variety. On Saturday the Commander admitted: I cut my own first asparagus last ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1944
Newspaper: Formby Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 101 | Page: 1 | Tags: none