A Source Of Seed In Approaching This Subject The Other
day Ia.sked whether (as in Geneva) you could buy the seeds of wild flowers in England. Such purchase has enabled the Swiss schools to populate their gardens without robbing the......
Hedge Or Bush
Earlier this year I wrote something about the astonishingly wide popularity of Lonicera nitida, a honeysuckle shrub intro- duced (from Western Szechuan) as late as 1908. It is......
Belated Spring
All Britain is experiencing one of the latest springs known for many years. The boughs are bare, even the quicks no more than in bud. The wheats are as short as the grass and......
New Daffodils Fashions In Flowers And Plants Are...
unreason- able as in garments ; but in general flowers grow more and more glorious. One of the fashions is the development of red (as in the wild jonquil) in the daffodil. To my......
Country Life
Where Our Flowers Come From The most perfectly illustrated magazine in Europe—I should think—is published by our Royal Horticultural Society, under the editorship of Sir Arthur......
A Plea For The Monkey
More than one correspondent from Pastern Canada has written asking the support of The Spectator for a protest against the import of monkeys ; and the Halifax newspapers have......
Flower Protection
English wild flowers, in spite of a very late spring, are coming to their best. The bulbs of the wild daffodils or Lent Lilies, warmed by the gracious suns of last summer, have......
The Use Of The Stoat
Whether Lewis Carroll got an answer to his repeated ques- tion, " Do cats eat bats ? " I do not know ; but I have received quite a number of convincing answers to the query "Do......
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