Lammas Land
The following notice, set up by the chairman of the Parish Council in a village of the Home Counties, indicates a certain proper pride in the preservation of historic privileges......
Fashions, Often As Inexplicable As Social Fashions,...
It is alleged that the peony (like the Alsatian wolf-hound) is losing favour ; and for this there can be no good reason, except that the newer and more lovely single varieties......
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URBAN STARLINGS. An interesting little problem in natural history, which should be easily soluble, has not yet been satisfactorily solved : where do the starlings come from,......
A Swan Ritual
An Irish observer, whose name is well known among painters and poets, has discovered among the swans, which frequent a millstream in his neighbourhood, the observance of a......
Let No One Deny The Simple Splendour Of A Mass
of one sort ; but in the smaller garden a great deal is to be said for a bed of mixed annuals. It is troublesome only in one respect. Failure to produce the " Turkey carpet......
A Winter Duty It Is Refreshing To Deal With Flowers
while we are in the grip of winter—to think on " fantastic summer heat " while we " wallow naked in December snows." And, more than this, the sowing time comes upon most of us......
Country Life
WHY NOT CATS ? A new theory of what constitutes a domestic animal is suggested by the latest traffic regulations. If a motorist kills or damages a dog or goat he is under......
Annual Glories.
If any corroboration were needed of the growth of the cult of gardening in England it would be supplied by some of the catalogues that are sent out about New Year's Day. They......
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