Lawful Cousins The Ragwort Is Useless And- Not Beautiful...
perhaps in mass ; but some of its very nearest relations are a real addition to a garden, or a landscape. There is a ragwort, whose proper name is senecio maritima, which grows......
Scenic Ricks An Observant Traveller About Rural England...
a particular change in one of the common objects of the landscape. The haystacks and some of the straw stacks are no longer—on many farms—grouped massively in the yard. Instead,......
A Remade Nest An Odd Succession Of Blackbird To Thrush
has been watched in a Cheltenham garden. A thrush hatched . out a flourishing brood from a nest built in a buddleia bush close to the house. The young were seen enjoying......
Country Life
An Illegal Weed. On several occasions on this page allusions have been made to the spread of ragwort over English and, for that matter, Scots farms. Last week a glorious......
Crossbill Oddities The Ways Of That Curious Bird The...
seem to he growing odder and odder. Its movements, the dates of the flocking and pairing, are all odd. It has appeared, for example, outside Oxford at BoAr's Hill (sometimes......
English Bulbs The Bulb Catalogues Arrive;, And It Is High
time to plant one sort of bulb at any rate ; the lily's planting month is August. In one British island, St. ,Helena, which has been enduring great depression, it is hoped that......
Rainbow Trout
It has been vigorously maintained and as vigorously denied that rainbow trout (which are the stand-by of New Zealand fishing) are indigenous to • England. They are as little......
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