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AUSTRALIAN BLACKBERRIES

... and in parts of New South WVales the blackberry is so prcfhlic that the fruit is gathered by the ton, in place of the bushel or hundred-weight iwithwhich English blackberry gatherers are familiar. The blackberry is linest and most abundant on the coast ...

Published: Friday 07 April 1899
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 722 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

PILFERINGS FROM PUNCH

... strawberries, plovers' eggs, asparagus, ortolans, and green peas are as plentiful as blackberries-more plentiful, we are glad to say, as we never relisbed blackberries; and even bankruptcy, which wae once the exclusive luxury of the aristocratic trader ...

Published: Friday 22 April 1881
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 622 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Dur Ladies' Column

... file, ripe blackberries we saw in thehedges, aad only consented to pass on the assurance that there were to be stewed blackberries and rich cream at dinner that. evening. .Then came a discussion as to wbetber apples should be added to blackberries when cooked ...

Published: Saturday 02 October 1886
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2299 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

American Titles

... where all men are supposed to be equal. In England, where dukes still survive, where marquises and lords are plentiful as blackberries, -where knights and baronets are not scarce, a man who wears a title, who has the misfortune, as Lord Compton candidly ...

Published: Tuesday 07 October 1890
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 464 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Parnellism and Crime

... Parnellism and Crime, it is a fact, testified to by the Daily Nezvs, that documents of this character were as plentiful as blackberries when it seemed there was a good market for them, and any London newspaper might have had an many as it wished of them. ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1888
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 502 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

BRISTOL VOLUNTEER DIARY

... Drapery, Mine I. Berae; No, 214, Anemones, Miss M Woodward; No, 658, Corn Flowers, Mise F. I. Cundall ; No. 562, Blackberries, Miss Cundall; and No. 295, Worcester, W. Ilarford The exhibition will be open to the public to dsy Smnllpox in Warrington ...

Published: Monday 14 November 1892
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 477 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

ST. MARY'S, TYNDALL'S PARK

... on the chancel steps. There was an elaborate display on the carved stone pulpit, which was belted with maiden-hair ferns, blackberry epraysand ears of corn. Bouquets of flowers and clusters of grapes alternated in the panels, and at the base were melons ...

Published: Friday 05 October 1888
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 514 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... was unripe, one said it was ridiculons to call them black. berrieswhentbeywerered. Don'tyouknow, said his friend, that blackberries are always red when they are green V SusPIcIous.-A rustic drank his first glass of sodawater very solemnly, and then eyeing ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1873
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 560 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

The Talk of Bristol

... season for blackberries. Not only are the hedgerows of farms around Bristol full of the luscious fruit hang- ing liko bunches of grapes, but the berries are remarkably fine-in some Instances more like mul- berries than the ordinary blackberries. As ill)ustrating ...

Published: Monday 18 September 1899
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1522 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

HARVEST FESTIVAL AT BARROW GURNEY

... trailed over the top and sides, and along the base were laced flowers, evergreens, clemnatis, and barley, with clusters of a blackberries at intervals; while a couple of bouquets of choice flowers stood in the centre flanking a miniature wheat-sheaf. I hb effect ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1871
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 653 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

Greek meets Greek

... since the two biggest figures in Frarice met on a similar unhallowed errand; and, seeing that duels are as plentiful as blackberries in France, and 'that anybody can have one for the picking of it, it is little to be wondered at that two enraged females ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1888
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 674 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

CONSERVATION OF SALMON FISHERIES

... preservation of the breeding-fish be closely attended to for a short period, and wve shall again have salmon as plentiful as blackberries. Indeed, so rapid is likely to be the increase, thrat a nervous friend of ours, who understands the subject, bnt who (aIs ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1843
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3447 | Page: 8 | Tags: News