Poverty Borrom.
Now what is the annual value of an acre of land on the poorer soils? Near Hungerford large tracts have been bought freehold during this century for £5 an acre and were......
Country Life
TITHE AGAIN ! A good deal is likely to be heard within the next few months and thereafter about that curious and historic indeed almost prehistoric land-tax, the tithe, by which......
* * * * Plover Flocks.
Have other wanderers over tilths and stubbles noticed the huge size of the flocks of green plover in south and central England ? In spite of the summery season they have come......
The Early Woodcock.
Another migrant has surprised southern observers. Wood- cock were seen a very little way North of London on October the first. Few birds are less regular in their migration, or......
A Neglected Woon.
Both South Kensington and Tottenham Court Road (in the person of Shoolbred's) have been exhibiting Empire woods ; and interesting though the exhibits were, whether to house......
The Vliitue Of Sycamore.
Yet sycamore is very sparsely planted. It grows like a weed. Any garden with a sycamore in it will boast, say, five hundred seedlings within a year. It grows fast, for no tree......
Wood Scents. * * * *
A surprising quality in some of the Australian woods is its scent.. Not cedar itself is more distinctive than the quaint rather small tree known locally as " raspberry jam." The......
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