Botanical Slums
In a great many places cottagers have been forced to throw out their slops anywhere, and the results have often been unhappy though sometimes botanically interesting. The ground......
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Garden Colours The zeal to instil new colours into old flowers, the accumula- tion of infinite varieties in a species, was very apparent at Chelsea and at subsequent shows. For......
The Grubs Are A Luxury To The Old Birds, A
necessity to the young, for the partridge adapts his feeding habit more nicely than other birds to the necessities of the seasons. He begins life as an insect eater, like most......
I Have Been Watching The Clearance Of Some Rural Slums.
There are many which will compare with any urban slum, so far as the house itself is concerned. One cottage consisted of three rooms. The walls were a joint affair of brick,......
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Giant Buttercups Most country people perhaps have noted the unusual size of the buttercup flowers this year ; and I heard a holiday maker exclaim : " Look at the daffodils " on......
Country Life
Trade in Ants Passengers along certain roads in the Eastern Counties may have wondered at the appearance of two great lorries that were making their way back to the most famous......
The Multiplication Of Rabbits, Due, As I Have Said Before,'
to the fall in price of their bodies and to the excessive trapping of their enemies, will leap to the eye of all who motor early in the morning or towards evening on almost......
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Friendly Nests In two ventilators of a cottage in Hertfordshire are now in being four nests, belonging to four pairs of blue tits. The nests are side by side and each has......
A Cottager's Pleasures A Verse Has Reached Me And Is
at least a propos to this subject. It is called " A Countrywoman's Prayer " : " Give me the little common blooms, That no one greatly praises, They are not rare ; but, oh, how......
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