A Retriever In My Neighbourhood Is Just Being Taken Off
for a few days on the Yorkshire moors. It is the custom of his master, who only escapes for what is foolishly and falsely called the week-end, to shoot on Saturday, play golf on......
Country Life
A PERFECT GARDEN. It was my good fortune earlier in the year to visit a garden in Worcestershire which has since, I hear, won a prize for the best of its sort in the five......
I Saw The Garden Before Either The Blackcurrants Or The
gooseberries were picked. The prospective yield of the gooseberries was enormous. The fruit hung like a fringe under each well-trained bough. The bushes had been so carefully......
These Expert Gardeners Were Ready To Spend ; But Even
at that date they knew that a remunerative price for the black- currants was most improbable. They had already heard that the buyers had made bargains with foreign growers at a......
Badgers V. Wasps.
A Cheshire garden in a not unpopulous neighbourhood has been visited this month by a badger with a particular nose for wasps' nests. It has destroyed and devoured just half—two......
Conservative Bees.
Bees cling to favourite sites ; and yet are very adaptable. The biggest wild combful I ever secured was built into a quick-set hedge. The utterly irregular comb extended for a......
Vanishing Orcuards.
This really beautiful farm carries also fine orchards of bigger fruits, in which most of the apple trees were planted a good many years ago by the landowner. The fear was......
The Art Of Grafting.
The money some of the fruit-growers expend and the skill they show is great. On this prize farm in one very big apple orchard every single tree had been decapitated. The variety......
A Great Harvest.
The plight of the grain farmers has not much affected the glory of the harvest scene. The country of the Southern and Eastern Midlands could scarcely look more lovely than it......
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