In The Garden Every Year One Flower Or Another Stands
out above th rest. Last year brought a miraculous spring for violets all colours. This year snowdrops have undoubtedly bee' finer than for some years past. Beginning late, they......
Hop Stringing Probably No Other Crop Needs Such Elaborate...
as the hop, and in March that assistance can be seen taking its first form in the astonishing straw-coloured pattern of new strings that shines out from behind the twenty-foot......
Flax Prospects Of Flax, A Crop Now Recognised To Be
of increasing im- portance, especially in defence schemes, we imported 50,000 tons last year. This represents something like 25,000 acres of growing flax and, at the 1939......
Country Life
The Wild Nt. ;:reun Daphne Mezereum, reputed to love chalk but always seen at its best, to my mind, on the clay of the Midlands, has long been listed as a wild plant. Its sturdy......
Rabbits : An Experiment Of The Rabbit I Am Almost
tirea of talking. The deteriora- tion of pastures and damage to afforestation schemes are only two of the many troubles for which the rabbit is re- sponsible in this country.......
The Pigeon Again It Is A Tiresome Business To Have
to return, year after year, to the same subject, but it must now be three or four years since we were promised action against the rabbit pest, and two years since we were told......
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