27 MAY 1938, page 18

Defeated Bracken On The Subject Of Machines Useful To...

a really great success has been won by a cheap and simple instrument— the Holt Bracken Breaker—of which I gave some account in this place two years ago. Bracken, a lovely fern......

A Great Preserver

So great a host of letters has been received lamenting the death of Sir Guy Dawber that a special memorial fund has been started. He was one of the authors and begetters and one......

Fruit Victims Asparagus Is A Good Crop This Year ;

but it will have to be a very good one indeed to atone for the losses on fruit. I walked about one beautiful plum orchard near Evesham and failed to discover one single set......

A Wild Vegetable

The asparagus is, of course, a native wild plant, not altogether uncommon, but research, which has been very active and successful at the County Trial Grounds, has vastly......

In The Garden Plants Give Us Many Surprises, Pleasant And

unpleasant. When we had a hard May frost four Years ago the Iris buds were reduced to the consistency of paper. This year a succession of May frosts, that have shrivelled every......

A Drought Resister A Great Deal Has Been Said About

the harm done on English farms by the spring drought; and the lamentations are justified; but it remains that some of the crops look as well as any one could wish. Within the......

Country Life

Vegetable Perfection I spent one day last week in the most fertile district of England, the rich plain or valley that includes Evesham and Pershore. Success and disaster rubbed......