Country Life
THE NEW HARVEST. Harvest has been reaped this year on the prairie principle, in five counties: Norfolk, Oxford, Hants, Cambridge and Haddington. A gigantic machine—the Clayton......
Where Flowers Prevail. -
The north-west of England has two examples, delightfully emphasized this August, of the importance of flowers. The Horticultural Society of Shrewsbury, which is a private body,......
* * * * You Might Say That Here Was
a salient example of the superiority of individual effort, if it were not that another municipality in the North-West has gone, if not one better, one as good. Southport was......
These Are But Random Examples That Might Be Indefinitely...
The carnation (especially since Allwood's crosses produced both dwarf and border varieties) and the nemesia, extended far beyond its African origin, are classical examples of......
A Queer Friendship.
In some " nature notes " in the Welsh Gazette, published in a part of Britain that is a paradise for birds, an account is given of an astonishing friendship between a -blackbird......
The Selection And Improvement Of The Iceland Poppy, Such As
Gibson, have had only less influence on its increase than the Shirley selection of the common poppy. The always useful rnontbretia, which lasts better in water than any others,......
* * * To-day, As All The World Knows, The
triumph is complete. The show is perhaps the greatest iA the world. It draws many foreigners. It is the high festival, at any rate outside London, of the cult of flowers.......
The Flaming Flower.
Our florists have marvellously responded to the demand. It would be hard to name any flower that has not grown in splendour as in favour during the past few years. Let me take......
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