Tim New Botany.
It is - quite possible that the discoveries in the manufacture of paper, artificial silk, and cotton and cellulose fibres may give a new value to many sorts of annual and......
Country Life
ROMECROFI a. Homecrofting is a delightful name for a movement of promise. In England it was started in 1926, when the Spectator opened its columns for the aid of a particular......
A Lesson In Reclamation.
We are a little shy in England of the cost and labour of anything that may be called land reclamation ; but how far our most ambitious schemes fall below - the efforts of those......
A Queer Pair.
Two bird observers in my own neighbourhood have bee n much interested in the ways of that no longer rare bird, the greater spotted woodpecker. A hen bird, with one maimed leg,......
T Wo Mammal Oddities.
Two oddities, in a different branch of natural histbry, are amusing other observers. An utterly unknown animal has been frequenting a group of young plantations for the last......
Urban Gardeners.
Quite apart from this particular experiment, homecrofting . in some form is peculiarly necessary in an industrial country ; and I should say that our urban and semi-urban......
Brotex !
The new plant, Brotex, which is to confer some immense boon on both agriculture and the cellulOse industry, has now dropped some its mysterious trappings. It is on exhibition......
Eccentric Birds.
What has happened to the birds ? Details of every sort of novelty of habit are recorded day after day. I said something last week of the quantity and variety of duck on London......
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