A Good Shrub The Other Day I Went Over The
garden of one of our greatest gardeners. He showed me of course, very many rarities and wonders ; including a houseful of plants growing from seed brought. back from " the roof......
Country Life
Drought versus Drying The weather and the season are not altogether kind to those who are making a special effort to popularize the use of drying plants for English crops of hay......
And East Anglian
Probably the biggest and most enterprising dryingexperiment in the world is now going on in Norfolk on the biggest farm in Britain. This is not so much concerned with drying......
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A Cuckoo Year That too ingenious naturalist who argues that the cuckoo is a mule-hybrid, not truly either male or female, will perhaps claim the evidence of this year as support......
European Devices One Of The Ablest Of Our Machinists Informs
me that in- ventors have been not less busy on the Continent, where the drying of crops grows steadily more popular ; and some cf the best authorities have come down on the side......
Birds-nesting Squirrels Ground-nesting Birds Have Many...
rollers, wet weather, vermin and birds of prey (including rooks). Squirrels, occasionally the brown as well as the grey, . are perhaps more apt to ravage the nests that are well......
Birds And Hay
The one melancholy side of hay-making in fine weather is the loss it inflicts on ground-nesting birds ; but happily this year, at any rate, in my neighbourhood, the broods were......
New Sweet Peas Flowers, Like Robes Or Hats, Have Their
fashions ; and our florists both obey and make the popular taste, very much like the fanciers of dogs. Now the sweet pea, that queen of annuals, i always in fashion ; but the......
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