Plant Now.
Perhaps the commonest of all the gardener's sins of omission is postponing till too late a date the planting of his bulbs, especially tulips. It is a liberal education at this......
May Another Suggestion Be Put Forward ? Particular Trees...
particular counties. Do beeches grow so well anywhere as in Buckinghamshire ? The great glory of Hertfordshire is the wild cherry. Is not the Wych elm known as " The......
A Robin's Compliment.
The best compliment I have seen paid to this adorable autumn of ours came from a robin. One of a pair was seen carrying nesting material to a favourite stump in the garden in......
The English Bulbs Are At Least As Good As The
Dutch ; and in some sorts are a little earlier. The point of superiority in the Dutch grower is that he has a much greater variety of sorts. Those who are precise about variety......
Country Life
ROADS AND BOTANLSTS. What is the rural work most proper to October ? Undoubtedly (with the leave of sportsmen) planting trees ; and this October a new area has to be exploited.......
English Bulbs.
About once a week someone makes an inquiry about English bulbs, of which something has been written more than once in the Spectator. Full details were given in the issue of July......
Producer And Consumer.
It has appalled many people who read of the course of the milk war, now temporarily ended, to know that the producer does not receive more than half of what the con- sinner......
A Pre-reformation Village.
Incidentally, those who want to read a sort of prolegomena to agriculture might do worse than notice An Agricultural Problem, by F. N. Blundell, M.P., a pamphlet published by......
A Suggestion For The Counties.
I should like to make a practical suggestion for the especial consideration of Middlesex, whose roads so far are rather barer than their neighbours', or for Surrey ? Will not......
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