* * * * Hospitable England.
While some natives were complaining of our spring weather I met an Australian, enjoying his first visit to England, who could not contain his lyrical admiration. " This spring......
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THE VOGUE OF BLUE. Two of the more recent introductions to our gardens from very remote places are flourishing in a certain Kent garden and are worth the attention of every......
Blue Is A Colour After Which Most Gardeners Thirst. Some
have a mania for the blue border, and how much time and labour have been spent vainly, and indeed foolishly, on the creation of a blue sweet pea and a blue rose passes com-......
Reclamation For Sport.
A new excuse for reclaiming the Wash is under discussion. Every year for many years I have visited the banks of the Nene, near its outflow, and watched, beyond the eastern bank,......
* * * * This May The Natural Beauties Would
be enough if there were no more animals than the skunks, wombats and llamas which were the only inhabitants when first I visited the place ; and the keeper's delightful spaniel......
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A little annual that is not enough grown is the nemophila, of a delicious blue. Probably it has been ousted by the nemesia—originally a bronze-yellow, but now procurable in......
Perhaps Australian Flowers—which Are Very Lovely—are Less...
than the flowers of any part of the world. That island-continent is peculiar to itself in many ways. The marsupials and many of the other animals, from tree bears to platypus or......
Country Life The New Zoo.
The opening of the Whipsnade Zoo this week is a wonderful Whitsuntide present to the public. The place is as good almost as a National Park. It has all the qualities desired in......
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