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Fruit The hot weather has encouraged logan berries and blackberries to go on growing much later than usua and I

... Fruit The hot weather has encouraged logan berries and blackberries to go on growing much later than usua and I keep fi nding young canes th at have not been ti ed in. This is some· thing that should be put right quick!\· so that late growth has a chance ...

Published: Thursday 04 October 1973
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 205 | Page: 147 | Tags: none

A COUNTRYMAN'S COUNTRY LIFE-NOVEMBER 4, 1971 and even a brace of partridges for supper, blackberries for a pie, ..

... A COUNTRYMAN'S COUNTRY LIFE-NOVEMBER 4, 1971 and even a brace of partridges for supper, blackberries for a pie, and, to crown it all, had come upon a colony of bees conveniently I hived in an old upturned kitchen sink. I could return home and ponder how ...

Published: Thursday 04 November 1971
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1664 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

DOGS

... DOGS GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS-Superb Blackberry of Rozavel). . pedigree (Dam Blackberry of Rozavel). Very dark some black. K.C . Reg., wormed, canilep vaccinated. Ready now. Phone 01-672 2267 01-672 2267 GORDON SETTER PUPPIES, bred from winning stock,ready ...

Published: Thursday 23 August 1979
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 79 | Page: 125 | Tags: none

HARVEST TIME OF CHILDHOOD

... blue-stained fingers. Blackberries were a blue-fingered, prickly crop and we came back from the harvesting covered in scratches and with clothing snagged. We took a crook-stick to pull down the higher branches. Great pies of blackberry and apple were made ...

Published: Thursday 14 June 1979
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 759 | Page: 146 | Tags: none

Mushroom Ketchup

... Mushroom Ketchup . \ i\lhen the blackberries were almost past thelr best and the poke was straining ro\\·an jelly (something rarely made nowadays) the first crop of mushrooms would suddenly appear on the fi eld in front of the steacling. What a sight ...

Published: Thursday 04 October 1973
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 389 | Page: 136 | Tags: none

(;oUNTRYMAN'S

... wild blackberry, crab apple The only when the big brass preserving pan seemed forever on the boil. Fruit was brought in the way bees bring in honey. When gooseberry or rhubarb jam wasn't being made it was wild raspberry, blackcurrant, blackberry, crab ...

Published: Thursday 26 June 1975
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1057 | Page: 89 | Tags: none

A PLAYFUL LION-DOG

... BUCKINGHAM PALACE I send photographs of two velvet-lined cases containing beautifully carved birds. One is of snipe with blackberry leaves; the other has sparrows beneath a spray of ivy. The material looks like wood, but inscriptions on the back say: This ...

Published: Thursday 03 June 1976
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 369 | Page: 112 | Tags: none

WHAT VEHICLE?

... region to region, as did the names given to different types of vehicles. ED.] SAVAGE NATURE SlRrecently witnessed near my blackberry patch a remarkable fight to the death between a rat and a weasel. A full-grown rat attacked a young (two-thirds grown) weasel ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1979
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 318 | Page: 70 | Tags: none

sad but there it is. I have no time to gra~s. let alone feed and tend pigeons. I

... nowadays. * * S UMMER has already grown old. I am not sure when autumn will really be here. The plums have yet to ripen. Blackberry bushes are covered with blossom, and one of my farmer friends told me yesterday that he won't be cutting corn on his upland ...

Published: Thursday 30 September 1971
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 693 | Page: 73 | Tags: none

FRUITS OF THE SEASON

... \Vhen they were quite wizened they had a \\·onclerful flavour. Grandmother used some of the apple crop to supplement the blackberries that were ha rvested from bushes overhanging ditches and sheltering clrystone walls in dozens of places. The fru it of ...

Published: Thursday 04 October 1973
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1287 | Page: 136 | Tags: none

DOGS

... DOGS ALSATIAN PUPS. Superb pedigree (D am, Blackberry of Rozavel), ready now. 'Phone : 01-672 2267. IRISH WOLFHOUND puppies, 3 months KC Superb temperament. homes. T el: Wincanton old. KC registered. Superb temperament. Available to suitable homes. T ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1978
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 447 | Page: 126 | Tags: none

The banks had

... away summer afternoons plying my father's strange and wonderful palmers. I would creep on very catspaws through tangles of blackberries, nettles, and docks higher than myself, and then with as much unassailed scrambling bikes, their age-long peace The banks ...

Published: Thursday 23 July 1970
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 604 | Page: 68 | Tags: none