Country Life
Penalties of the Frost Until the summer is over, gardeners, and indeed farmers and game preservers, will continue to find lamentable results of the worst May frost within......
Wild Lupins
An American, who is a fond gardener, once expressed astonishment to me that English people were content to plant lupins on their borders. The flower is a wild weed in some parts......
Landscape Gardening
The Chelsea flower show, which has several autumn but no spring rivals, proved a triumph for the landscape gardeners. The rock garden was not a flower garden at all, but a......
The Happy Gardener The Scheme Of Opening The Gardens Of
big country houses to the public on a select day or two in the summer has given great pleasure and earned a fair sum of money for charity. One of those who thus invited the......
Few Swallows Is Is Because Of The Frost That The
swallows are said to be fled ? Some came to us, of course, much earlier than the date of the frost, but the bigger immigrations are usually the latest. The " single spies " of......
A Phenologist's Prophecy Those Ingenious Persons Who...
phenologists, because they study the dates and correlations of appearances, may like to take cognizance of a certain West Countryman's annual prophecy. He is a great observer of......
Ground Nests
Birds on the whole suffered rather less than one feared ; but very melancholy accounts come from some of the grouse moors exposed to the north east. This hostile wind (so loudly......
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