"ex Africa—" It Is Of Interest To Every Gardener That
the Director of Kew-- the best garden in the world—has come back from a tour in Africa, a country that now, as in the past, has a name for novelty : Ex Africa semper aliquid......
Gardeners And Frost.
The less romantic countryman has always believed in the value of a late spring. The later it is the more likely is he to avoid what has been called the worst attribute of......
In An Ambitious Garden, Where Exotics Abound, It -is A
rather terrifying experience to make the rounds of inspection after such a frost. Shrubs that are on the edge of hardiness, such as many varieties of ceanothus or Camellia, or......
Country Life
MIGRANTs. It has not perhaps happened before within our memory that March weather, however leonine, has routed migrating birds. Our winter visitors, of course, especially......
Arable Farmers Rejoiced Even In Districts Where The Zero...
was reached or passed. In the same vein as the village gardener one of them said to me : " It is just what we wanted." The early lambs, he explained, were strong enough to stand......
Missing Guides.
It is astonishing how little is known locally of the flora (and sometimes , of the smaller fauna) of some of the richest districts of the Empire. I was amazed, even on the edge......
Africa Excels In Colour. It Is Therefore One Of The
very greatest feats of English florists that they have succeeded in the task (not, as Shakespeare held, of supererogation) of gilding the lily. The most lovely and useful of the......
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