Syon Or Jerusalem?
I have been to Kew Gardens, most lovely for its landscape as well as its plants and single trees, to refresh my memory of the view 'across the river to Syon House Park on which......
Country Life
OXFORD ON ENGLAND. The conference to be held at Oxford, on January 18th, is not unlikely to mark a stage in the philosophy of rural betterment. It will consider health and......
A Prophecy.
It is not improbable that in the future we shall extract gas from sludge (a feat already achieved at Birmingham and in Australia) ; and also concoct manure and concrete out of......
Oar And Hazel.
A winter visitor to Kew Gardens will always envy two trees and wonder why they are not more widely spread. One is the large-leaved oak, which, though not strictly an evergreen,......
At Syon No Farm Is Meditated. London Sewage Would Be
biologically purified, the liquid poured back into the unhappy Thames, and the sludge carted off, no one yet knows where. This must be an evil system. If, as in Western......
British Sportsmen Have Always Been, Perhaps, A Little...
their choice of dogs ; and the artificiality of much partridge and pheasant shooting has further narrowed their narrowness. A good many dogs (and even cats) can be taught to......
Birds In France.
Very good news reaches me of the increase of birds, especially small birds, in one part of the South of France, where they have been most persistently shot by local "......
Retriever Or Spaniel ?
We all know how fashions in dogs change ; but hitherto sportsmen have been more or less free from the dictates of any prevailing mode. It is now complained that the spaniel is......
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