The Way Of A Covey
July thunderstorms—by the downpour, not the electricity — are held to be the cardinal enemy of the partridge coveys ; but the cutting of the oats, now nearly completed, has......
In The Garden
Are we justified in calling the' ordinary border of the sort " herba- ceous " ? The word, I take it, means a plant that disappears from the surface in winter, and most of us......
A Song In The Ruins
TROUBLED with influenza, a politician said The men that died for India came floating round my bed, The dead from Chillianwallah, the watchers of Mardan, The ones who held the......
Recent Thunderstorms, Some Of An Eccentric Nature, Have...
some old local beliefs. One is that there is no place so dangerous as half-way up an open slope. It seems unlikely that there is truth in this ; but it so happens that my only......
Despised Acres
On the subject of harvests the Rural Reconstruction Association (which always talks good sense and touches essentials) reports that our tillage acreage is virtually stationary,......
Lessons From Wisley
At Wisley, where the gardens grow more gorgeous and suggestive every year, there is to be seen just inside the gate a flowering patch that bears the absurd name Ceratostigma......
Interwoen
THE broad, kind countryside: The grown trees, and the tangled hedges,' The quiet brook ; the pool, with sedges Knee-deep in water: and the stucco'd pride Of a great mansion ;......
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