Passing Season
Almost all the stubble in sight is bare - now. The sheaves have gone and the fields present a tidy appeafance they never seem to have at any other time of the year. The brows......
Country Life
Now that the schools are open, the village streets are quiet for an hour or two both morning and afternoon, and the mothers of the children that were setting up a clamour to......
Spectator Competition No. Iss
Report by Joyce Johnson Readers were asked to' submit descriptions of new Looking-Glass Insects. Carroll's style was to be preserved but post-Carroilian data might be used, if......
Cobwebs
Walking round an outdoor display of rock plants that was illuminated by small strip lights on pairs of iron legs about eighteen inches long, 1' was intrigued to discover that......
Pickled Walnuts
There is always something that gets overlooked and this year we forgot to harvest the two walnut trees in the cottage garden when the crop was ready for pickling. The same thing......
Be Opettutor, Gleptembet 17th, 1853 Tira Cholera Is Again...
and we are still talking of " preparations " to meet it. More than twenty years have elapsed since we first encountered this dreadful enemy; four years since it found our......
Shrubs And Roses September Is A Good Time To Order
shrubs and roses. When con- sidering shrubs it is advisable to study the varieties of the particular kind chosen, for some take up more room than others and their root area......
Spectator Competition No. 188
Set by Allan M. Laing Memories are short these days and mnemonics correspondingly more useful. Competitors are asked, therefore, for the usual prizes, to compose neat, rhymed......
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