New Plants.
The possible influence a new plant might exercise on civilization is a subject that many imaginations have played with. A mighty Egyptian King once toured the world to spread......
Empire Zoology.
I hear that England is co-operating zoologically with those pioneers who are striving to populate the northern regions of Canada with congenial stock. The requisites are......
London Tropics.
Outside Kew there is a garden almost in London where you can see in flourishing growth almost all the economic plants there are in many varieties : tea, coffee, cocoa, rubber,......
Country Life
REVIVED HARVESTS. It has been a liberal education to walk about the farms, not least the small holdings of West Lancashire, these first sunny days of harvest. By some miracle......
The Return Of The Vermin.
It is good news—at least to some of us—that certain vermin (if one must use the word) are increasing very considerably in the west of Britain. Polecats have returned, and it was......
The Importance Of Flowers.
The part that flowers play in the life of the community was strikingly exhibited recently at Southport, when 100,000 people visited the flower show, which is beyond question the......
The Mind Of A Certain Old And Famous Gardener Must
have been playing with this dream when he said to me the other day : " The plant may revolutionize the industry." He was talking of a newly discovered variety of cane so rich in......
If Ever A Vermin Sanctuary Should Come Into Existence,...
is the place to select. An animal that is being persecuted with peculiar unreason in some districts of Wales is the badger ; and his worst enemies are not game-preservers or......
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