Seedling Apples For The Second Year Running I Have Watched
the experiment, on a commercial scale, of the sowing of apple pips for the sake of growing trees on which to graft cider apples. Each year the pips have germinated to so large a......
Hawk And Rabbit The Other Example Of The Rabbit's Power
of offence is less - moral and rather more surprising. A gamekeeper (who perhaps deserved the name better than some of his class) saw a sparrow-hawk attack a full-grown rabbit......
Courageous Owls The Owl Is, Of Course, A Bird Of
astonishing courage, almost of savagery. This very week, oddly enough, I talked with two people, both residents in Worcestershire, who had been directly attacked in person by......
Safe Blossom If The Austrian View That Blossom Is Safe
after the Festival of the Three Icemen (May 10th, 11th, 12th) this year should be the best ever known for much fruit. I walked this week through a Worcestershire orchard of......
Country Life ,
Revived Crafts The Oxford Rural Community Council, which is fondly known as the Ore, deserves among birds of such feather the title of the Great Ore. It has done much fine......
Animal Greed It Is, I Suppose, The Peculiar Fondness Of
birds for the pips of' the apple that makes the apple seedling so very rare an occurrence in most of our orchards. Where apple pulp ,is thrown out in heaps from cider factories......
The Courageous Dam
Two examples have come to my knowledge this spring of the courage and warlike capacity of the rabbit, which we all class as one of the hunted, a victim whose only protection is......
Where Oxford Leads The Whole Credit Does Not, Of Course,
belong to Oxford, though Oxford has gone rather further and more practically into details of organization than anyone else. Accounts . of the first year's achievements give......
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