A Form Of Forestry, Calculated To Breed Envy In Any
Brit ish afforester, begins to flourish. IVIten an altitude is at last reached, which forbids the growing of beans, sweet potatoes, sugar, vines, bananas or even bamboo, the......
If This Island Could Be Planted, Say, Alongside The Isle
cf 1Vight and left in enjoyment of its present climate, the land would, I am convinced, be regarded as agriculturally worthless except in the few places where it falls into......
It Is An Abrupt Enough Contrast To Return From The
flaming flowers and active harvests of Madeira to a late spring in England, when the gardener scarcely - dare plant or sow, even if his frozen fingers permit. Yet in some points......
It Is Curious To Note The Changes In Crops Brought
about partly by world conditions, partly by local accident or fiscal experiments. AS the almond—to the enhancement of the scenery- begins to oust the olive in Majorca, so the......
It Suggests That Somehow Or Other The World Has Been
switched on to a wrong rail when one finds, as often, intense poverty associated with a rich soil. The ship by which I returned carried some 8,000 baskets of beans designed fur......
Dissimilar Though They Are In Almost Every Aspect,...
Madeira may be fruitfully compared : one may learn by contrast. Supposing—as children say—that we had spent in England on draining and reclaiming one half of the labour spent in......
Country Life A. Intensive Island.
I have just come from an island, about the size of the Isle of 1Vight, where land, purely agricultural land, is sometimes considered to be worth £1,000 an acre or according to......
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