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Doubly Sure Another oddity of bird habit was observed in the same beautiful garden. Two cuckoos' eggs were laid in one nest, if that phrase is permitted by the impassioned......
Electrified Flowers The Growing Contact Between Farmers...
some curious details. Some of the flower-growers to whom it is important to hurry forward their blooms and vegetables to a particular date are now using underground electric......
Country Life
The Royal as Index It was impossible to visit the Royal Show—the best and much the biggest ever held—without feeling that British agri- culture was vital, as well as great,......
A Cobwebbed Kingfisher In What Queer, Unlikely Places...
young birds, will appear! The other day, in a garden famous for its population of birds, a young kingfisher was found in an outhouse, gagged and bound with cobwebs. The theory......
New Fruits A Small But Very Real Advance In The
nice art of the hybridisation of plants has been made in the matter of straw- berries. The secret lay in the use of the wild strawberry as one ancestor. The Paxton, already a......
In The Garden At The Really Wonderful Display Of Flowers
at the Royal Show in Windsor Great Park no single blooms were more admired than a group of Stuart Low's orchids. They looked like tropical butterflies. Yet such apparently......
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