The Art Of Recreation
The truth is—and the expert seedsmen should earn our continual gratitude—that almost all our garden or field plants demand yearly renewal. Different words are used. Mr. John......
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Natural Degeneration This point was raised with one of the growers of those superlative vegetables, and he justified his art persuasively. Everyone who has grown any annual......
* * * * Mother Plants Species Of Course Vary
greatly in their tendency to degenera- tion. None falls back more quickly than the edible, or indeed the sweet pea. Bad seed is very bad indeed. Root crops, most of which are by......
The Woodpecker's Chisel From Several Other Districts Than...
Essex, whence came earlier observations, come accounts of wood- peckers turning their attention to telegraph and electric posts. The reason for this curious taste has not been......
Neglected Foods Most Of Us, Not Least Those Who Grow
for the market, are too conservative in our potagers. The continental bean, eaten with the pod, and the pea of a like nature ; the custard marrow ; Salsify or the vegetable......
The War And The Strawberry The War Proved The Truth
of this most lamentably. How wide and lasting was the degeneration in this sort of produce no one can well estimate, but there is one - outstanding example into which I have......
The Artistic Smith In An Increasing Number Of Village...
you may sec today the beneficent results of the tours of the travelling experts sent out by the Rural Industries Bureau. These experts have revived both old traditional patterns......
Country Life Vegetable Perfection At A Recent Floral...
exhibit which won the prize for the best in the show was a collection of vegetables, numbering in all 355 sorts or varieties. They were, of course, quite impossibly perfect, in......
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