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CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS

... readiness for planting Asparagus, Sea Kale; &c., which, from being plants of a permanent character, require a soil prepared to maintain them in pro- ductiveness-for some years, with the occasional addition of top Aressings. Both Asparagus and Sea Kale thrive ...

Published: Thursday 03 March 1853
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1058 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE DEVON AND EXETER

... o i. Collins, Esq.; shaddock, Sir R. R. F. Dovle, Baet., M.P,; . green gooseberries, Johnuia.mcll, Esq. .e VIEaETAeBcs.-Asparagus, heaviest 100, Sir T. D. Aeland, Bart.; second, heaviest, C. R. Collins, Esq. Rhubarb, sixestalks, ' J. Dow, Esq.; second ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1870
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1443 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

A.MER-ICOSPANISH WAR

... 6s 6d per couple, chicken 4s 6d to 5s 6d, cream Is per lb, a buttor 11d-to 1s, cggs 16 for Is, bread 7d per I,41b loaf, asparagus Is 4d to Is 6d per 100, 1 o gooseberries 4d per qrt, rhubarb 3 bundles for 2d, new potatoes 3d per lb, old potatoes Is 6d ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1898
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 14360 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

Gardening Operations

... frosty weather by laying long litter over the rows ; also lay a good thickness of the same material over the roots of I asparagus, rhubarb, and scakale intended for forcing, w whether to 'be taken up or not. - Look after mice amongst the rows of autumn-sown ...

Published: Wednesday 23 December 1885
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 386 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS

... winter lettuce on arich warm piece of ground, and provide a succes- sion of radishes and other small salads. Manure and dress asparagus beds. Get cauliflower plants raised under glass hardened off, and pay every attention to those under hand- glasses, in order ...

Published: Thursday 13 March 1856
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 449 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS

... crops of forced vegetables, as Asparagus, Kate, Rhubarb, ?? Except for the early crop of Rhubarb, we prefer forcing the two latter vegetables where they grow, and we know of no butter or cheaper way of forcing Asparagus early, than taking up tl e roots ...

Published: Thursday 05 February 1852
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 989 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SCRAPS FROM PUNCH

... taken the field; and that is all they have taken. 1XTIIIESTING HABrrS OsF MnS6TEaRS.-Mr. Gladstone, when he buys a bhndle of asparagus, begins 'by dividing it' into three heads. Lord John Russell, before doing any. thing, always looks into .fagna Clharta ...

Published: Thursday 17 August 1854
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 486 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

A NEW TRADING VENTURE

... to 5s 6d per couple, rabbits 9d L his each butter la 5d to Is 6d per lb, eggs Is per L 3 of dozen, bread 5d per 41b loaf, asparagus 3s par At zar, seakale 9d per lb. rhubarb 2?d to 3d per Al of bundle, spples Is to 2s per 100, potatoes is per D tine score ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1899
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 573 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

EXETER, WEDNESDAY, May 22

... Some Frenchmen were in our Marketyesterd~ly, (five days ornly from France), selling eggs at Sd. per dozen, and fine large asparagus at 1^. iier hundred. A serious riot took place in Bideford on NV ednesday last., oocasioned by an interference on the part ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1816
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 607 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

The Yeomanry at Teignmouth

... lld to 1i per ib, cream Is per lb, eggs 14 for 1s, potatoes, old, 6: to 8d per score, r ew Zd per lb, cabbages I-Id each, asparagus Is 4d to ls 6d per lb, green peas is per peck, cucumbers 4d each, onions Id per bundle. gooseberries 3d per quart, strawberries ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1896
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 541 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS

... -Rnbarb,', Seakale, and Asparagus should now be in progress. Thb iti'6 former may bemanaged very, well in a any place possessiig the ebaracteristics of a Mnshroom.house, namely, moderate 'whimths and~exclusion of light. For Asparagus, a pit or bed should ...

Published: Thursday 18 October 1849
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1292 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

VARIETIES

... this cane I hold in my hand, but it is only a stick for all that. Asked why no asparagus was ever grown in the gardens of Versailles, a French minister replied, Asparagus takes three years to attain maturity; and no ministry ever lasts so long in France ...

Published: Wednesday 06 June 1883
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1284 | Page: 6 | Tags: News