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FRUIT GROWING IN COLORADO

... orchard and garden is five miles we- of Denver, has a splendid five-acre orehard of appless. peats, plums, strawberries, blackberries, and currants, and has sold his crop this year for £1,200, the working exppeuses being £300. Mr. J. Green, Villa Park Post ...

Published: Friday 04 December 1891
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1562 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S LAST JOKE

... and laughs as heartily as ever. At his reception one evening last week in the White House the negroes were as thick as blackberries in Jersey. Among them was a coloured barber named Burke; be was an applicant for an office in the New York custom house ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1864
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 520 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

Cable Calk

... without staring. A native of Padd7land asked a' neiglh- ,re- bour if be lad ever seen a red blackberry. To be sure lee- I have said Pat. All blackberries are red when they are , le- greeni. ...

Published: Saturday 19 November 1836
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1161 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LIVERPOOL SHELTERING HOME

... WE have lots of all kinds of fruit this year; we have our strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries preserved; we have blackberries, plums, and apples to pick yet. I have 17 house plants of ny own; some of them are in bloom. My little sister out here ...

Published: Monday 18 September 1899
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 511 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

Borrowed Cristies

... *and headed it, A wretched attempt at wit. A New Orleans papcr of last January boasted gold was as pentiful there as blackberries. The editor forgot to tenl how abandsut bhlacehberies are in Nowv Orleans in midwinter. IsIMPARTIAI.11Y.- This is a vcry ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

AUTUMNAL MIGRATION OF BIRDS

... There last are very fond of the beech mast. Bullfinches are very scarce this flight, principally owing to the blight in the blackberry time Tbere has never been known such a scarmiry of tbere berries these 30 years. Siekins have Lot yet arrived, but this ...

Published: Tuesday 20 November 1877
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 635 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

VILLA, ALLOTMENT, AND COTTAGE GARDENING

... of our readers grow this very fine blackberry. Its groper name is RIlbus laci- unatus, and it obtains its common name because of the resemblance of its leaves to those of parsley. WVe have grown this fine blackberry for years, and here never failed to ...

Published: Friday 21 October 1898
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2103 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

VEGETARIAN SOCIETY JUBILEE

... spent ; in Ireland he observed that with a deal of rural rypoverty the hedgerows were laden with luscious - zry fruits the blackberry especially abundant, and Sb t many of the fields along the line of railway were rM white with mushrooms and edible fungi ...

Published: Tuesday 19 October 1897
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 641 | Page: 10 | Tags: News 

AMERICA

... the ap- pearance of tbh applcnt. If decently apparelled they will extract $10 or $20; i a poor person wishes to get a few blackberries to eke out a sub- sistence by selling them about the streets, $1 is the charge. I know a British subject who is now negotiating ...

Published: Tuesday 12 May 1863
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 764 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MR. GLADSTONE AND FRUIT FARMING

... usual season's make is as follows:-GooseberrT, 300 tons; raspberry, 300; strawberry, 200; b:ack currant, 400; damson, 500; blackberry, 100; and they can be bought retail from any ready-money grocer at from 4d. to 1id. per lb. Mr. Gladstone has therefore ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1884
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 766 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

TELEGRAPH FRAUDS AT MANCHESTER

... very res- ast spectfully, Somar Bazaars.) t ton The public wil be. glad to leas-i that WMiiam I r pof PHa -has t&h - added Blackberry to hisa ner list of celebrattead seves, which can now be t not obtained in the =us satwo-pound jars from all I he Grocers ...

Published: Monday 22 October 1883
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 756 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

COOL FOOD FOR HOT WEATHER

... have iron in a very marked deg~ree, also in all the reel and blaok fruits-to ?? rcdl. jand blackc currants, xasp. berries, blackberries, e~c. ...

Published: Friday 30 June 1899
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 656 | Page: 7 | Tags: News