Birds And Noises
The plover is the most beneficial and the least harmful of birds. Its beneficences are unqualified on any farm land. At the other extreme comes the starling in the......
The Ideal Grass
Those wise persons who direct the Green Research Com- mittee at Bingley Hall in Yorkshire have now further enhanced the reputation of that most congenial . variety of grass......
Country Life
Courageous Plovers The birds that build no nests worthy of the name seem to be less sensitive to disturbance than others. You can, for example, hardly persuade a peewit to......
Doomed Bracken
There are many ways of earning the blessing invoked by Dean Swift on the head of him who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before. Captain Holt has dis- covered one......
Destruction Dates
The date approaches when the work is best done. The only really effective time for either cutting or bruising bracken is during the period of early growth when the roots are......
A New Handicap On The Subject Of Golf, On Some
very rural links, I came upon a method of handicapping that was new to me. The inferior, or less perfect of two players, habitually receives from his opponent half a stroke at......
In The Garden One Of The Most Memorable Garden Spectacles
in England is the mound of barberies at Wisley when the flower is full The most popular of all bushes is said to be Thunbergi, whose purple leaves especially appeal to American......
Grass And Fruit Tress It Is A Commonplace Among...
that grass checks the growth of young trees, and it is thought by some that it has a definitely toxic effect. Yet the grass must not be maligned. In the fruit-growing districts......
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