Garden Caveats.
All manner of curious, and often unpleasant, things have happened in our gardens and will especially affect the planting season that is upon us. The nurserymen have lost a very......
The Wild Duckrs' Crime.
Serious and utterly surprising contamination was one day discovered by the analysts in water taken from one of the bigger reservoirs on the edge of London. It was some while......
Country Life
CLEAN RIVERS. On the side of a steep hill leading down to the River Lea, I noticed this week that superfluous tar and pitch from the repair of the road was collecting in lumps......
Populous Waters.
The present lowness of the water reveals the astonishing number of coarse fish, so called. One shallow reach of not more than a chain, must contain a good hundred fish. You may......
A Mown Sanctuary.
A considerable controversy, waged even with bitternesF, has arisen over the creation of a "national park" in the Forest of Dean. It is, perhaps, inevitable that the phrase......
Autumn Or Spring?
Every botanist knows that autumn is a second spring, a time of germination and growth as well as of decay. Birds, too, feel this springlike sense. I had a suggestive example......
London Brans.
- A good many places more or less near to London have peculiar attractions for birds. You might travel over a good part of the world and fail to find as many plover as......
A Fishing Questionnaire.
On this subject an admirable list of questions has been drawn up by the Fishing Gazette in order to find out how far the lowness of the water, which is general, has affected the......
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