An Elizabethan Witness.
The importance of the apple—and perry pear—in English social life is persuasively emphasized by the very first of the scientific workers in this field in England—John Taverner,......
* * * * A Reformed Bough.
In a garden of the West I saw the other day a most persuasive example of the value of ringing the bark of fruit trees. A very well-pruned bush tree had not borne fruit for some......
Starling Versus Swift.
Even the hawk-like swifts have not been exempt. A strange tale on this theme reaches me from a country rectory. A pair of swifts, as usual, are building in a cottage roof.......
Eccemittic Weather.
Wireless and the newspapers make us all weather-wise ; but oddities of the weather are surprisingly omitted. We experienced last week one of the strangest thunderstorms in......
Country Life
VILLAGE 'PRENTICES. Could it happen in any but an English 'village that no one is willing to accept proffered money ? A very great many parishes have the use of charities left......
* * * * My Personal Acquaintance With Some Of
these old local bequests and the general ignorance about them exactly coincides with the experience of some of the Rural Community Councils now publishing reports. For example,......
English Orchards.
In at least six English counties we have evidence that almost the oldest of rural industries in England is steadily advancing (and but for "the tied house" it would advance much......
A Greedy Bird.
I hate to record the sins of any bird, for all have virtues, even in regard to man ; but if, as Meredith said in another connexion, the flame of their soul burns upwards, we......
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