More Roadside Markets.
Accounts reach me from several very different countries of the extraordinarily rapid advance of roadside sales by farmers and gardeners. The method is becoming con- spicuous in......
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The recent purchase of 850 acres near Leicester is a stirring example of public spirit of the best sort. The land keeps its historic charm ; and it has been a deer forest since......
* * * * Where Leicester Excels.
The contrasts between different districts in this respect are very abrupt ; and there is ground for hope . in the fact that you can cap examples of damage with examples of......
* * * * A Singularly Suggestive Example Of The
effect of creating a fenced sanctuary was told the other day, at a private discussion of the general subject, by one of our ablest and most constructive naturalists. He took a......
Natural History Societies Of Britain Have Been Canvassed...
subject of sanctuaries and National Parks. If the evidence they have given could be collected between covers it would make a blue book of singular charm ; but it will never be......
Garden Privileges.
Such excesses of weather as we have experienced--the wettest November after the driest summer—have reduced our gardens to a pitiable state in outer appearance. - Even the stems......
Country Life
MORE LIGHT An old country labourer in the Midlands said to me many years ago that life was all " working and sleeping." He got up sooner than it was light in the winter and......
* * * * The Reason Is This. When Electrical
power is first brought to a district, a high price is charged for the light, on the vague understanding that it shall be reduced later. Faced by this fact, the smaller owners of......
Now, The Government, Which Has A Certain Keenness On The
subject, have this week been considering the opinion of naturalists and of the Preservers of Rural England on this subject of Parks and Sanctuaries. There is a strong feeling......
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