Country Life
Saving Seed A SINGLE plant of tobacco (Nicotiana affinis) may succeed setting 350,000 seeds ; in Certain species of orchid this number may be increased to a million. Many......
Lime Flowers Of One Of The Medicinal Herbs Mentioned Last
week it is pleasant to recall that Gilbert White, exactly one hundred and fifty years ago this week, had something to say: "Lime-trees are fragrant" (he wrote on July 25th,......
Compulsory Salvage The Situation In Country Places Often...
comment on the situation as a whole. Salvage is one of these cases. Six weeks ago I was asked by my Rural District Council to arrange for the collection of salvage in my own......
The Year Turns The Year Turns, And Rain Brings A
sudden touch of autumn to the July countryside. The first plums, Early Rivers, are ripe for cooking ; dewberries are heavily bloomed with purple. It is possible once more to......
The Cinema
The Grapes of Wrath. At the Odeon. THE cinema is a young art. It hardly existed at the beginning of the century. For forty years it has been largely exploited as an industry, as......
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