A Rose's Circulation.
We hear of books and newspapers and such things as having best-on-record circulations. Why do we hear little of the most widely circulated flower or shrub or such beautiful......
Oxford Ingenuities.
On the subject of this year's new machinery it is wholly remarkable with what rapid success Oxford University has taken up its function of studying agriculture mechanics on......
Country Life _
A PRIMULA FROM THIBET. Something was said the other day on this page about the blue poppy (Meconopsis Bayleyi) brought back by Mr. Ward from Thibet, of which the seed may now be......
Condemned Flowers.
New roses are produced every year (though it takes a good eight years to put a rose on the market), but more new roses are scrapped than are sold ; and some of the rejected have......
July, The Sudden.
July heat proved so sudden and complete that it caught ' some producers, and many gardeners, napping: - Fruit, especially currants, ripened so quickly that they began to fall......
Harvesting In One.
Early this summer, it was given as a sign of the loss of capital in farming that no machinery was exhibited at an Eastern Counties' show. May we take it. as a symptom that......
Beneficent Bacteria.
This immediacy in scrabbing up—and better in ploughing— the ground, is in accordance with recent discoveries by our men of science. It has been proved at Rothamsted that the......
California V. Coggeshai.l.
National rivalry in the production of new varieties of many flowers is hot. The British are still probably the best in delicacy of selection. A delightful account was given me......
The Best Rose.
The best of all the new roses—to my mind, eyes, and nose— is Dame Edith Helen, a delicious pink with all the rose virtues in high measure. If it were an apple we should call it......
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