English Apples.
The question of the relative value of English and imported apples has been stirring an almost bitter controversy in The Times. It will be generally confessed that the battle has......
Country Life
WHY SETTLEMENTS FAIL. - Never has the literature of farming enjoyed a wider vogue than to-day, the day when, to quote the title of the most popular of French farm books : La......
New Bird Hsarrs.
Writing the other day about gulls in London, I suggested that the tribe was changing its ancestral habit. A week later I opened Nature by Day, by A. R.. Thompson (Ivor Nicholson......
The Spending Of A Great Part Of Their Time On
the Moors rather than the sea is not peculiar to any one species of gull. Black-backed gulls, both greater and less, herring gull and black-headed are all found regularly on......
A Considerable Number Of Correspondents Have Produced...
coming of gulls to London,; and they have, I think, more or less settled the historic fact. In old days odd gulls visited London, but flocks spending continuous weeks or months......
It Is A Pity That The Public In General Forgets
the maxim about beauty—and ugliness—being skin-deep. How much does Jonathan owe to its blush, though the experts almost universally prefer a greenish apple ? Of all the orchard......
Much Perverse " Knocking " Of The English Climate Is
practised by all sorts of critics. An enemy of the wheat quota (with whose other arguments I do not disagree) asks this week : " Why grow a crop for which our climate is......
Now British Columbia, The Neighbourhood Of Vancouver, And...
Vancouver Island, as well as the scenic glory of the Rockies and Selkirks, is a paradisal country. The Okana- gan Valley is better for growing fruit than Evesham or Wisbech or......
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