Holly For Profit.
There is only one thing on my estate that pays," a land- owner said to me the other day, " and that is holly." He sells tons of it, berried at one price, unberried at another on......
Island Sanctuaries.
The island sanctuaries in Britain slowly multiply. I hear wonderful stories of a private sanctuary, dedicated by a man of business, in the Orkneys. Some of the most charming and......
Country Life
THE CHRISTMAS LANDSCAPE. The Christmas landscape is hung with a great wealth of berries ; and by some trick of the season holly leaves have grown more thinly than usual and the......
Winter Visitors.
In the midst of the unusual warmth I have come upon one of the more melancholy signs of a hard winter : a redwing lay dead upon the lawn. This comely thrush, who comes with the......
Escaped Otters.
In giving a list of the alien animals now at large in England I left to a postscript the nutria ; and a good deal of confusion has been caused by the introduction of the name......
Capri And After.
When Dr. Alex Munthe wrote of the plight of the birds of Italy in San Michele he builded better than he knew : he moved the heart of the Duce to consecrate Capri as a sanctuary......
Dartmoor Is Becoming A Centre Of Strange Fauna. The Nutria
is bred there ; and there is to be seen one of the most perfect of the silver fox farms. Over it the other day circled and gambolled no fewer than seven buzzards ; and though......
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