Nature's Excess The Year Has Been Notable For Two...
examples of nature's overplus. There are diminutive forests of the scarlet-knobbed clubs of the wild arum in every ditch, wood, thicket, hedge and waste. Assembled in such......
The Espalier
About two-thirds of my apple and pear trees are now cordons and espaliers, and in a bounteous year what an overwhelming vantage they possess over standard trees! Their......
Crane-flies
The other visitation is the crane-fly or daddy-longlegs, which moves in hosts over meadow and lawn and at night invaded houses all through .September, presumably driven by one......
In The Garden
Figs are always problematical in a garden, unless one goes to the considerable trouble of building a brick container round their roots on planting. Otherwise, the fig will only......
Country Life
I HAVE heard to my astonishment that many orchards in Kent, Cornwall and parts of Hampshire have a crop of apples which, compared with last year's, is as penurious as are our......
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