Inland Gulls It Is, I Think, Unquestionable That Many...
of gull are increasing steadily. Why I do not know. The perpetual presence, outside the breeding season, of black-headed gulls (the special gull of London) in a number of inland......
Country Life
Defacement by Roads A new road of a very modern sort is meditated across one of the most gorgeous scenes left in the Cumberland Lakes ; and some residents and visitors,......
Flowers Are To Play An Important Part In The Silver
Jubilee ; and I doubt whether the Ministry of Agriculture has ever played the aesthete to more human purpose than in its scheme for London window-boxes. The Board of Works, the......
The Urban Owl A Number Of Birds Enjoy Towns, Often
to our surprise. For example : I spent one night last week in a house in West Bromwich, just off the main road. It is a very urban spot, though it was rural not so long ago. The......
Jackdaw And Sparrow
A naturalist motoring last week from Birmingham to Hereford struck a sparrow, and being humane stopped the ear to see whether the unfortunate bird was killed outright. As he got......
Gulls And Hare
The experience of the jackdaw on the road is strange, but I heard, almost simultaneously, of a yet stranger example of "nature red in tooth and claw" from easterly England.......
Fraternal Sepals
Gardeners owe a new sort of debt to those most useful of roses, the Poulsens, whose trusses of flowers keep our gardens gay for month after month. Mr. Page, 'the honorary......
The Best Sweet Peas
We have all our favourite flowers and varieties of flower. For myself the garden would be quite incomplete without the lavender variety of sweet pea, named Powerscourt, still......
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