Nesting Box Competition
On the subject of wrens, a strange tale is told me of the long duel between a pair of tits and wrens for the possession of a new nesting-box. The tits, especially the cock bird,......
The Best Apple
In the west country a very expert grower of fruit grafted a number of his trees (which had borne a less valuable variety of fruit) with that best of commercial apples, Lord......
Country Life
May ! The date suggests two pleasurable duties. One is to visit the fruit orchard country, Worcestershire perhaps above other districts ; the other to visit the Lincolnshire......
Close Seasons More Than One Appeal Has Been Made In
this page for a closer close season for many birds. A beginning was registered recently by the passing of the Bill for the protection of geese and duck ; and the Home Secretary......
Brave Birds
How persistent are some nesting pairs, and how shy are others! The other day I found a blackbird's nest that had been built on what had been the top rail of a fence, tilted to......
Colour And Soil On The Same Farm A Certain Amount
of transplanting was done for various reasons, and some of the results were striking. Cox's were removed from a sloping orchard to lower ground, and flourished exceedingly. They......
In The Garden
In one cherry orchard (which has been in unusually full blossom this season) a great quantity of daffodils were planted about twenty years ago. The grass is rather rough, and it......
Cured Canker
In the same orchards a patent cure for canker, that most prevalent of apple diseases, has been tried recently. I in- spected closely a number of cankers both broad and deep that......
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