Wanted : A Recipe.
A good many years ago a German naturalist, who kept a bird sanctuary, published a pamphlet or small book in which he gave a recipe for a bird food or dish. The special quality......
Walnuts, By The Way, Have Been Roundly Accused In The
public Press of being hostile to their neighbours. The same accus- ation is made against the elder. I doubt whether there is much, if any, justification for either charge,......
The Advocate For Shortbread, Whose Garden Is In Great...
gives a very interesting and suggestive list of foods in order of preference. " My little friends . . . feast on beef fat (preferred to mutton), coco-nuts, bread and butter,......
It Is Astonishing How Quick Most Animals Are To Discover
any food that has exceptional savour and flavour. The rats will discover your Cox's Orange Pippins ; and the tits at once desert an old ham-bone for the skeleton of a pheasant !......
Country Life
PLOUGH MONDAY. A rather unhappy symbol of the transition in agriculture may be found in the final extinction—at least in some Midland parishes—of the ritual of Plough Monday.......
* * * * The Precious Walnut.
I have made a good many inquiries of late about the foods preferred by many birds. One correspondent bears witness to the absolute supremacy of pie-crust or shortcake. A very......
Rural Calendars.
On the whole our country people are conservative of old customs. Villagers still " beat the bounds " or play com- munal football, as in Lincolnshire, or act rough plays on......
New Flowers.
In more than one technical review of the garden year, two plants, mentioned more than once in the Spectator, are quoted as the most notable novelties, both brought from Asia by......
* * * * Garden Catalogues.
The garden catalogues, with their coloured plates and yet more highly-coloured descriptions of garden flowers, enable us, more or less and with due reservations, to do the sort......
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