Country Life
FLOWERS AND THE C.P.R.E. When the Council for the Preservation of Rural England meets next month at the Welwyn Garden City some special emphasis is to be laid on the flowers and......
Cans V. Dons.
At a small shoot this September three sportsmen had lost a favourite dog by death from motor-cars, and others recorded similar experiences. The casualties have been, and......
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AN AMERICAN IMMIGRANT. An example that has appealed to botanists is the monkey flower of America or mimulus. A year or two ago some of us began to fear that it might prove as......
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A THEORY OF PERIODICITY. Do flowers as well as animals rise and full, multiply and diminish in more or less regular periods ? With regard to animals, especially voles and......
Since The Above Was Written A Much Valued Correspondent...
me a reference indicating that this crime in the grey squirrel, if new to England, is found in old records. He quotes Buffon's Natural History, published in 1749. In Vol. 5, the......
* * * * When Country People Dig Up Plants
and transfer them to their own gardens they may prove preservers rather than destroyers. The garden becomes a sanctuary for the plant as it is a sanctuary for the bird. To make......
After All, In England, Nature's Sowing Season Is Either...
or late summer ; and imported annuals that can endure our winter rather prefer this natural date ; and, of course, flower earlier. The gardener's thoughts arc inevitably......
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AUTUMN ANNUALS. Autumn, as we all know, is very like spring, and is as productive a sowing season. Yet many small gardeners never sow annual flowers before the spring, and so......
Grey Squirrels Yet Again.
Every other week or so, as it seems to me, some new crime is brought home to the grey squirrel, whose presence, neverthe- less, continues to delight very many observers. I was......
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