14 JULY 1928, page 14

The Best Rose.

It is the month of roses ; and in spite of green-fly English roses seldom looked more fine and healthy. We all have our favourite varieties. Last year one of the queens was that......

In Every Regard " The Royal "—always Known As Such

without the qualification of agricultural and show—seems (though it only seems) to give the lie to the tale of farming depression. Every single side of the show, not least......

But To-day July Has A New Definition, That Allies It

too with both spring and autumn. If there are any gardeners who do not sow carrots or—if they can endure them—turnips during this month, they commit a grievous sin of omission.......

And The War-time Discovery Of July As A Seed-sowing...

now quick-maturing sorts have been especially produced by the great seedsmen for this purpose— has been capped by the research workers at some of our horti- cultural and......

Absent Devons.

It is a difficult question ; and there are signs of a real revival in the export trade in pure-bred stock. One eminent breeder at any rate expects great things from the new......

Bud Versus Graft.

July indeed may be claimed as a spring month. We should sow vegetables,- plant strawberries and bud roses and fruit- trees. And in this third department of garden work July now......

Country Life

NEW JULY VIRTUES. IT is one of the modern discoveries in horticulture, in the garden and to some extent on the farm, that July is both a sowing month and a planting month. It......

Hunting And Humanitarians.

Some astonishingly wrong-headed criticism has been evoked by the winding-up of the Pembrokeshire Fox Hunt; It is rare for a British Hunt to disappear, even to - day when......