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The Rock Garden Many Hard Things Have Been Said About

the rock garden; and in old days it often more nearly resembled a coal-tip than a garden. It may look artificial and silly ; but the rock plants are the soul of gardening......

Welsh Birds

A good deal of North Wales is unexpectedly empty of birds, many of which after all have a liking for quiet scenes and rich cultivation ; but you come upon surprises. In a......

Country Life

A Bumper Harvest . One of the ..most bountiful harvests ever recorded is now being gathered in the West of England. It is reckoned by a s pecial inspector that the yield of......

Sowing The Wild Such Zeal As The Alpine Gardeners Evince

has its dangers. Just as oologists are very fond of birds, that is of taking away their eggs, so a gardener may be very fond of plants, that is of digging them up, but zeal for......

Alpine Zeal If There Is Any Stronger Evidence Of The

growth of gardening zeal than the fortunes of the Alpine Garden - Society, it must be strong indeed. The Society has been in evidence this late September by reason of its......

Snowdonia As A Park

Snowdonia is unique and is very approachable, at any rate from the Llanberis base. its botanical riches are enclosed within. a narrow circle and as such are peculiarly liable to......

How Many Gardeners Arc Now Sending An S.o.s. To The

botanical research workers to save the most popular of all bedding plants ? In hundreds, indeed probably thousands of gardens, especially near London both in the north and the......