Perhaps The Supreme Flower Of The Day Is The Gladiolus.
Even cottagers are giving high prices for the bulbs, and the extension of colour and form still proceeds apace with the help of that strange primulinus variety which was found......
The Scale Of The Flower Industry Becomes Almost...
there is a very fair export trade in seed, though our climate (always excepting one little dry, sunny district round about Coggeshall in Essex) is not particularly suitable for......
Country Life
FLOWERS OF THE YEAR. The cult of flowers spreads in England at a steadily increasing rate, nut least in the North and West. This week at Southport, which with Shrewsbury holds......
Harvest Contradictions.
It may be definitely said that the harvest, of which a good deal is already in stack in spite of thunder-storms, is a heavy harvest all round. Some few crops at the very last......
It Is At Least A Good Omen That The Local
distribution of crops is becoming less uncommon. Some of the railways— much to be congratulated on the example—are buying all the oats for their heavy horses from farmers in the......
The Intelligent Mongrel.
A very large proportion of sportsmen use pure-bred dogs ; and of these an increasing proportion are Newfoundland retrievers. The breed has now a quite unchallenged pre- eminence......
Some Part Of The Improvement In The Flowers Is Due
not to hybridization or selection or to the " sport," but simply to better cultivation. That loveliest of all the newer flowers (the Meconopsis Bailleyi, brought from Tibet)......
Roses, Too, Improve In Strength Not Less Than In Range
of colour. There are few better " doers " in the catalogue than the new and all-popular Betty Uprichard or the best and sweetest of the dark reds, Etoile d'Hollande. Few roses......
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