Country Life
WFILE harvest is in full swing some of the agricultural critics are expressing pleasure that the area under wheat has been reduced. The reduction is considerable, though the......
Two Ways With Wasps
Wasps, which begin to be a menace as the plums ripen, can be destroyed by those who wish to destroy them in two ways which are more or less new to most people. The more......
Where Trees Flourish
Loud protests have been raised lately—and with full justification—at the defacement of the country in consequence of the extraction of iron ore. Certain districts, in Leicester-......
In The Garden
One of the early apples that has ripened betimes this year—and flourished particularly—is James Grieve, perhaps the very best apple of its date ; and it is not only blessed in......
Stolen Seed
A number of people have been observed of late visiting a particular common for the purpose of collecting the seed of the prevailing grass. The turf there is particularly fine......
Fibrous Wealth
The talk of finding a home for exiled Jews in British Guiana reminds me of a correspondence of some years ago, when there was a question of the commercial growing of certain......
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