The Absent Worm
Some birds become more useful than ever in times of drought. The worm is only to be secured in moist weather. It is a beast that has the power, in a certain small degree, of......
Sun-lovers
The season has favoured such sun-lovers as the dahlia and some flowers so tender as to be regarded as exclusively 'suitable for the greenhouse are now revelling in the open air......
From Fleece To Tweed
A good many country crafts are kept alive by sympathetic support that is quite outside the economic world ; and some easy critics assert that the little business cannot compete......
The Happy Craftsman
• The other day I came up a little narrow valley cut by a hill stream ; and towards the top of it, while yet the water had six miles to cut a yet deeper passage to the sea, I......
Country Life
Drought Influences The effects of such a drought as we have experienced in the life of the country have often been indirect. While Plants may suffer directly from lack of......
A Dahlia Controversy
Gardeners may be divided into two classes : those who are followers of Ha and those who are complete heretics. Ha or Amber Giant stands as a type—immense, lusty, full of robust,......
Welsh Genealogists
One advantage of the survival of this sort of local factory is the maintenance of inherited skill. This craftsman comes of a family of craftsmen and one at any rate of his......
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'Criminal Weeds Some influence, perhaps a succession of dry years, has been peculiarly favourable to the growth of certain weeds, especially those on the index expurgatorius.......
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