Garden Catalogues.
It is a liberal education to read some of the garden catalogue that descend at this date upon the country resident. They are very gorgeoUSly illustrated, often in colotir ; and......
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THE VORACIOUS PIKE. A second enquirer desires to know how to clear a loch of the pike that eat all his trout. The query coincides with the publication of a number of recent......
Inventing Colour.
Colour, indeed, may almost be called a new invention. One catalogue told me last year of the evolution of all the jewelled varieties of the nemesia, daintiest of all annuals,......
It Is Harder To Find Any Virtue In The Behaviour
of the same railway toward the intensive farmers who depend on its punctuality. A dossier has been collected and sent to me by some of the most expert farmers in England, giving......
Villagers And Wood.
Every countryman noticed how during the coal strike the countryside was raided for wood. Never was such a tidying up of fallen trifles. The fashion set at that crisis has not at......
Country Life And Sport
AN OLD BRADSHAW. In the course of watching wild, birds in the Cambridgeshire Fens some years ago, I stopped for a night at a remote farm- house. On enquiry about trains at the......
Close Seasons.
Something was said in this place last week of she wisdom and humanity of not shooting partridges after they have begun to pair. I see with pleasure that in a very exhaustive......
Young Water Birds; Frogs, Fish Of Very Considerable Size And
spawn. They do not breed nearly so freely es most of their victims, but their longevity makes up for this deficiency. What age they may have achieved I do not know. My oldest......
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