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A Nesting Tribute On The Subject Of Vegetables There Is

a useful plant, generally known as asparagus-kale, which should be more freely grown ; but I write of it not chiefly for its dietetic virtues. In the midst of a plant—indicating......

Contemporary America

Sta,—In view of Professor Brogan's erudition and of his chiding Mr. Nichols in the fourth paragraph of his criticism of Mr. Nichols' bock Uncle Samson in your issue of May 19th,......

Lemon Lore

SIR, — Mr. Frank Swinnerton in his contribution to Books and Writers on May 12th, makes frequent use of the statement, " The answer is a lemon." Whilst the meaning of this......

"vie *perform 311411e 1st 1850

THE DERBY DAY NEVER perhaps did the grand day at Epsom draw forth such vast multitudes by all the outlets of London. The spectacle in town was very peculiar: the points of......

In The Garden One Of The Plants That, After Several

weeks' absence from my garden, I found flowering very freely was a recently planted climber nick-named " Mr. —'s potato crisp." Its proper title is Solanum Crispum. It is a very......

Country Life

IT is a remarkable fact that in this most crowded country, which is said to suffer from nothing so acutely as " the urban mind," there flourish the finest flower-shows and......

English Trees

THE beech is a cliff, resting upon the sky, The oak a rock, around which seas of grain Rustle and recede, the birch is rain Even in seasons of drought, when fissures crack Open......

Ducks And Decoys

The singular success of the ' duck adoption " schemes has had several satisfactory results, or accompaniments To begin with, it has brought in over £500 to the " International......

Bishop Henson's Autobiography

Stn,—It would seem that, if his words have been rightly reproduced by Miss Gardner-Brown, Bishop Hensley Henson was guilty of a slip of the pen. Retractiones certainly sloes......