The Partridge's Diet.
All naturalists owe a debt to Dr. Collinge for his investi- gations into the food of birds. He has proved even the alleged criminals to be useful citizens. He is very scientific......
* * * * A Wandering Parrot.
A rather unusual experience of an " aviculturist " in the neighbourhood of Peterborough suggests that long periods of captivity spoils the natural instinct of birds. A tame......
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me to report the cure of this splendid tree if I had not received from the United States some quaint, but very persuasive, accounts of the new vogue of the tree surgeon and tree......
Country Life And Sport
OurstnE one of the loveliest country houses I know, in a hamlet famous in literature, stands one of the biggest tulip trees in England. The girth of the bossy trunk is large and......
Berkshire Hops.
A little event at the Brewers' Exhibition in London suggests that farmers in England are much too shy of innovation. The silver medal for hops went not to Kent or......
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The methods of tree surgery now used by the Government and by municipal bodies both in the United States and in Canada is almost an exact imitation of the dentist's art. The......