Harvest Hopes.
This season is one when weeds are a peculiarly insistent subject. Like all green stuff, they have flourished out of all measure. But so have the crops themselves. Even yet there......
Australian Flowers.
The cult of flowers has spread very rapidly in Australia, where perhaps it was once a little neglected. A reference made more than a year ago in this place to the difficulty of......
A Bird Criminal.
It is not pleasant to condemn any bird ; but if half the evidence given me in North Wales is true—and I fear all of it is true—the carrion crow cannot be acquitted of the worst......
The Greek Mallow.
A particular flower that continues to grow in popularity (though many of the best amateur gardeners seem to know little of it) is the Sidalcea or Greek Mallow. Like other......
Flowers As Peace Agents.
A delightful and suggestive variant of Voltaire's, II faut cultiver noire jardin, was given the other day by Lord Bridge- man at one of the two great flower shows to which the......
Country Life
WEEDS AND MR. ORWIN. Once more, on the wireless as in print, Mr. C. S. Orwin, to whom farmers owe much, has been urging his clients to specialize, specialize, specialize—if it......
Victorian Posies.
A surprising turn in floral fashion is the new popularity of "Victorian posies." Immense quantities of tight, round little posies have been sold, and are now being sold,......
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