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respect: the blackberries seem to b ~ more than usually abundant, but the nnts hardly np to the n,)rmal standard;

... respect: the blackberries seem to b ~ more than usually abundant, but the nnts hardly np to the n,)rmal standard; so they have to take the sweet with the blackberries, at the moment of writing, it has to be confessed that, though they are in splendid ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1908
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 164 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

BLACKBERRIES: TAKE YOUR PICK Hunter-gatherers are descending on the countryside to harvest the flavour of late ..

... set; spiced blackberries with vinegar, cinnamon, ginger, allspice and cloves; and chutney just with apples, blackberries and vinegar to keep the flavour. I make a blackberry brandy, too-but that 's not for sale.' Wild and Fruitful's blackberry creations ...

Published: Thursday 24 August 2006
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 792 | Page: 54 | Tags: none

A T summer the briers seemed to grow extra long and spiky and malignant. o, after the blackberrie had been

... A T summer the briers seemed to grow extra long and spiky and malignant. o, after the blackberrie had been culled, Old Will and I set about lopping the vicious tentacles that can twine themselves around the wool of a sheep and hold it fast unto death ...

Published: Thursday 17 November 1966
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 415 | Page: 75 | Tags: none

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

656 lot of work. By 1946, when I picked blackberries on Merrow Down near Guildford, the London Catalogue of British

... 656 lot of work. By 1946, when I picked blackberries on Merrow Down near Guildford, the London Catalogue of British Plants listed nearly 160 wild types. Many are of poor or only moderate quality. On Merrow Down I picked Rubus calvatus, which is shiny ...

Published: Thursday 13 March 1986
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1377 | Page: 132 | 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

COUNTR Y LIFE, September 19, 1941 THE MEN licences to cover such sales, provided that the purchaser declares ..

... now to gather the blackberries. The fruit preservation centres will be glad to have them. They have not been kept too busy in most districts, and they would evera l tons of blackberrie to There are like to have evera l tons of blackberrie to complete their ...

Published: Friday 19 September 1941
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 503 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

W. Selfe

... both for the Army and for the workers on the land that apples are so scarce this year. Pure blackberry jam is a poor thing compared to that compounded of blackberries and apples. The chance of the Army lies in this : that in France the crop of apples this ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1918
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1666 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

COUNTRYMAN~s

... running along the blackberry a yard or two from the Shortly after the mouse At length the mouse came to a part stem of a blackberry a yard or two from the eat's sleeping place. Shortly after the mouse reached the main stem of the blackberry it passed within ...

Published: Thursday 04 August 1960
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 945 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

OF SIAM

... announced herself boldly in a voice quite unlike a eat's, and picked her way among the dogs, treading on Blackberry, pressing against Pickle. Blackberry growled a sleepy threat, then raised his head and, seeing Salli, quivered from nose to tail and lay still ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1936
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 714 | Page: 48 | Tags: none