Old Novelties.
It is surprising, considering the vast number of new varieties of garden flowers, how little the hybridizers have done for farm crops. Though we still receive new flowers......
A Sanctuary's Influence.
Rather rashly, perhaps, Lord Desborough wrote the other day to the Times about his sanctuary of Whiteslea, where the fishhawk is a not uncommon visitor. He recorded the sad fact......
This Summer For The First Time A Sufficient Quantity Of
seed of the Brotex plant will be available for growing crops of sufficient acreage to provide cotton on a manufacturing, not only a laboratory scale. The small total of......
Country Life English Cotton.
On the Suffolk estates of two well-known landowners—and in other-places—is being grown a plant, given the rather silly name of Erbifex. It is a discovery for which an economic......
Alpine Popularity.
The great success of the new Alpine Garden Society (Hole Sec., 11, Montagu Gardens, Wallington, Surrey) is an expres- sion of the increased vitality of this form of gardening,......
An Exuberant Season.
We are experiencing a season of unusual exuberance in every sort of direction. It is marvellously floriferous. The flowers have now set into fruit that promises many bumper......
On Another Suffolk Estate, And On A Very Much Larger
scale in many counties, is being grown a very different plant, of which even more optimistic prophecies are abroad. This is called Brotex, and it has been given the publicity......
Romantic Tales Have Been Told Of The Accidental Finding Of
cotton fibre in the nests of humming birds in South America. This may or may not be the pretty origin of the discovery ; but with regard to Erbifex, it is a created plant : it......
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