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Troubled Waters The emission of waste oil on the surface of the sea has aroused the most ardent and effective protests from lovers of birds ; and with good reason. One of the......
Oak And Blackthorn
A strange botanical freak is reported to me from an observer in Bodmin " While trimming a very overgrown hedge here I came upon an oak tree about 'a foot in diameter and in......
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At Studley The queer sham castle at Studley is set in very beautiful surroundings in a part of England where soil and clime are very favourable to productivity : Warwickshire......
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More Grebe It is welcome but rather surprising news that on the. Continent as well as in Britain that splendid bird, the greater Crested Grebe, is increasing very rapidly—owing......
Aestivators In Africa Yet More Wholesale Methods Are...
order to arrest growth. Rose bushes are dug up and laid in dark places for a considerable period. Devices for meeting the handicap of hot dry seasons arc not uncommon in the......
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Sleeping Roses A subtle point in scientific production—of roses as of many other 'plants—is 'put to me by one of our research workers. While travelling in India he found that......
Country Life
Women Farmers It is always cheering to hear of forms of activity in which there is no unemployment. One of these is women's work .on the land. I was told this week at Studley,......
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