Now The Plunkett Foundation Which He Endowed With Rare...
and statesmanlike aim, is fathering this week a meet- ing which may make history. The English societies (which number well over a hundred and have a turnover of some 17,000,000)......
This French Cider Apple Has Several Other Virtues. Though It
blooms and burgeons late, growth proceeds thereafter at such a pace that the fruit becomes ripe at very much the same date as its more susceptible neighbours. It net only bears......
* * * * Tonics For Flowers.
Some flower-lovers of my acquaintance have been further testing the effect of certain drugs upon cut blossoms ; and the results have surpassed their most sanguine anticipationi.......
An Apostolic Apple.
In a very lovely garden in the West Country flourishes what I should think is the most various and interesting apple tree in the world. It is young and lusty. It carries twelve......
All The Twelve Seedlings, With Which The Stock Is Grafted,
represent different crosses with this famous Medaille d'or and other parents were selected with a view to encouraging greater strength of wood. By putting all on one tree com-......
Country Life
THE SOUL OF A PEOPLE. " The Soul of A People " was the name given to the spirit of the thing for which the only available word is Co-operation, a rather clumsy compound that has......
* * * * This Tree, Now Coming Into Leaf
on some grafts but not all, is a supreme example of a habit that grows and will grow more common. Since the discovery that many, indeed most, sorts of apple and pear, are in......
A Nesting Kite.
It may serve a purpose to report a county tragedy that was presented to me during the week. I had heard that a kite, that very rare and splendid hawk, was nesting in a wild and......