A Radical Discovery.
The East Melling Research Station has gone one further than Tennyson, who desired to know all about the flower in the crannied wall, root and all, branch and all." They have......
Birds And Fruit.
"Eat More Fruit" is an injunction most conscientiously observed by the birds in dry weather. In my garden every codlin that falls is eaten out within a few hours by many sorts......
The Choice Of Stocks.
Another discovery of yet more importance to fruit-growers has been demonstrated in great detail at East Mailing. Apples may be budded or grafted on four or five different......
It Is Too Often Presumed That The Problem Of Rural
preserv- ation is purely aesthetic,' and the fallacy does harm. Nothing checks the movement more than a feeling among local coun- cillors that faddy sentimentalists interfere......
A Friendly Swan.
Most of us have heard of the swans of Wells that have learnt to ring a bell when they want their food. A solitary swan in Hertfordshire has acquired the same intelligent trick.......
Corn?
In Oxfordshire last week a local labourer began to tell a . Scottish visitor all about the harvest. She was delighted to hear how good the corn was, but was suddenly pulled up......
Country Life
RIBBON DEVELOPMENT. Lack of rain has brought out one of the essential evils of the "ribbon development" against which the Council for the Preservation of Rural England with......
Wanted, Rural Plans.
From every point of view we need rural or regional planning schemes. Every district council that will has the legal powers to save the countryside. Even in the decentralization......
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