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ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW AT YORK

... have achieved a great triumph in connection with the Logan berry, which was a rrue hybrid between the red raspberry and the blackberry, a-nd is a fruit of unique value. It is said to be perfectly hardy, and to have withstood a temperature of se-eal degrees ...

FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL

... wvas completing his sixth year. Three lads named Lawrance, Oxford, and Wetherby, living at Devonport, went into the country blackberry- picking on Sunday. All three were taken ill, and last, evening La'urance died. Oxford is still dangerously ill. Whilst ...

Published: Wednesday 12 September 1900
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 801 | Page: 4 | Tags: Commerce 

PUDSEY

... from either party by looking at their past his- tories. Tory promises at the last general election were as plentiful as blackberries on the hedgorows. But they were only promises, and almost wholly remained unfulfilled. It was not playing the game fairly ...

Published: Monday 01 October 1900
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2325 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

A CENTENNIAL OF EVOLUTION

... sunlight dancing the polished gun barrels. Down through the scrubby thickets strode; burr and thorn scraped his canvas jacket, blackberry nm-s caught at elbow and knee. With ao unfeigned scowl kept eyes on Jocelyn, who was still pottering on the stream's lank ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1901
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4925 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

CULTIVATING BL%CKBF.RRIEB

... and baa access hedgerows would think cultivating blackberries in his garden, aa abundance of fruit can always obtained from the wild plants, but th>«s with gardens in and near towns would find the blackberry a subject that would invariably bear them much ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1901
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1169 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

THB POSITION OK A QUKEN CX)NSORT

... before told some years ago by the late Donald Nicoll—a Sheriff of the city of London. Mr. Nieoll, when lad. wa» gathering blackberries in the lanes around Kensington Palace, when a girl on donkey stopped and involuntarily ’* How I should like some. Gallantry ...

Published: Monday 28 January 1901
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3703 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SPRING EXHIBITION: SECOND ARTICLE

... medium in which, it added. Miss Margaret Willson has able adjoining portrait of Mrs. John Gordon. Mr. Arthur llopkioa’s “ Black•berrying “ (81) not remarkable, unless for (he very entieni and infelicitous afterthought that induced tbe artist the figure a ...

Published: Wednesday 27 February 1901
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1057 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

M.VX UR ING FRU IT TREKS

... indted. the y»ar Cypher, nursery Bafi. Ooeen etoad. make* a spaciality of lAie p'ao* aon ae-.d true ahararock. AMKBIf BLACKBERRIES - Captoia Warden - T-.m sbeetd plaat iba*e at one* if i wish s*ic-* ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1901
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2530 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

LOCAL NOTES AND QUERIES

... have claimed kinchin whh St-.T- of Assisi St Charles Borromeo. I n the stained old potato-basket he carried there were few blackberries gathered from the hedgerow, and a Dint measure. He said it was a starvation job, this caiwte™ brambles, for the farmers’ ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1901
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1203 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

POTATOES

... stone; peara, hazel Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. per stone, duchesse ditto ss. 6d. to ss. per box; bananas 6s. to Bs. per crate; blackberries 2s. 6d. to 3s. per stone; tomatoes 3d. to 4d.. foreign ditto 2d., mushrooms 2d. to 3d. per lb.; vegetable marrows la. to ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1901
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1061 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

... Editor, “Weekly Supplement,” Mercury-office, Leeds. DESTROYING ANTS.—Several Readers—Please see note in to-day’s paper. BLACKBERRIES, House.’’-The Wilson Junior is toe best variety. It te Amerii'au. The plants you were offered at Bs. a dozen were cheap ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1901
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3010 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

TUESDAY (HOAREV

... to 4d.. tomatoes 2d. Is., foreign grapes 3d, to Bd, English crapes Is. fid. 2s. fid. per lb.; lemons 9d. to Is. fid. per blackberries 2d. to 3d. per lb. FISH. BIT>MNGSGATE. —Supply good; demand good. Turbot 12s. fid. 155., brill 9s. 10s., halibut &s. 98 ...

Published: Monday 07 October 1901
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2728 | Page: 6 | Tags: none