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  2. POULTRY.

    Questions relating to fancy or commercial poultry keeping, diseases, etc., should be addressed to "Ancona," "Herald" Office. Singleton.—1. One or two applications [?] kerosene and ...

    Article : 824 words
  3. IN THE GARDEN.

    Perennial peas, or everlasting peas, as they are often called to distinguish them from the annual sweet peas, to which they are boanically allied, have, during recent years, ...

    Article : 308 words
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  5. SCIENCE NOTES.

    At the Edinburgh Congress of the National Society for the Prevention of Consumption, a number of remarkable papers were read. Dr. Hamburger, a leading authority, declared ...

    Article : 323 words
  6. THE JULY QUARTERLIES.

    An Edinburgh reviewer writes pleasantly about the history of travel in Italy—he might better have called it "Italy and Her Invaders." but the Quarterlies never smile. Apparently ...

    Article : 283 words
  7. GREEK THOUGHT AND MODERN LIFE.

    Two books of Professor Mahaffy and Mr. Butcher's Harvard Jectures give another of the Edinburgh writers an opportunity. What, he asks, have the Greeks not done for modern ...

    Article : 222 words
  8. CRINUMS.

    The genus crinum includes a number of handsome and stately plants with large funnel-shaped flowers of various colours, which are borne at the apex of rather tal stems, ...

    Article : 339 words
  9. ENCKE'S COMET.

    An interesting cometary visitor who will appear next year is Encke's comet. It belongs to the Jupiter family, and, indeed, some say It was In the first place ejected, from a ...

    Article : 226 words
  10. SOME MODERN ESSAYISTS.

    The "Edinburgh" devotes an essay to essayists. The essayists considered are four parts Mr. A. C. Benson, three parts Mr. Chesterton, and two parts Mr. Belloc and Mr. Lucas. We ...

    Article : 162 words
  11. LEAD POISONING.

    In 1908 a departmental committee was appointed to make an exhaustive research into the subject of lead poisoning and the Home Office has just issued its report. In ...

    Article : 216 words
  12. NOTES.

    In the coast districts the following bulbous and tuberous rooted plants may now be planted, preferably in well-drained, deeply-worked, good friable soil. The larger bulbs should be ...

    Article : 69 words
  13. EGG CIRCLES.

    In January last statements were made that Sydney was about to be flooded with what was known as South Australian circle eggs, and at a price with which our producers could not ...

    Article : 625 words
  14. GLASS HOUSE.

    In the middle of fine, warm, calm days, the sashes of the glass-house should be opened a little for a few hours, but the plants must not be exposed to strong currents of air. The ...

    Article : 455 words
  15. KING EDWARD VII.

    The "Quarterly" opens with a very notable personal appreciation of the late King Edward, which is well worth reading, but which can hardly be dealt with in a brief paragraph. ...

    Article : 158 words
  16. PALLADINO AND SCIENCE.

    Madam Eusapia Palladino is one of the most famous of living mediums, and her levitations have convinced men of the standing of Lombroso and Sir Oliver Lodge. Eusapia used to ...

    Article : 258 words
  17. THE PROSE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.

    Mr. a. W. Verrall writes in the "Quarterly" on the prose of Sir Walter Scott. Scott has often been accused of neglect style—indeed, his manner seems crude enough to the modern ...

    Article : 146 words
  18. CONCERNING CANCER.

    Another "Quarterly" article gives a very able review of recent literature relating to cancer. The results already obtained, says the writer, are of such complexity that they ...

    Article : 213 words
  19. FRUIT GARDEN.

    The season has arrived for grafting deciduous fruit trees, and any healthy vigorous ones that have not hitherto borne fruit satisfactorily may now be cut hard back, and seions of ...

    Article : 559 words
  20. A CURIOUS SUPERSTITION.

    Mr. T. M. Hughes writes to "Nature" about a mass of white translucent jelly often found on the turf in Pembrokeshire and elsewhere. It seems there is a popular superstition that ...

    Article : 153 words
  21. MAKING SUNSHINE.

    The Improper selection of food drives many a healthy person into the depths of despairing illness. Indeed, most sickness comes from wrong food, and just so surely as that is the ...

    Article : 342 words
  22. LORDS AND COMMONS.

    In a sensible discussion of the "Conference," the "Quarterly" does good service to the sauer sort of Liberalism. It remarks that the co-ordinate authority of the two ...

    Article : 314 words
  23. THE LATE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND HER DISCIPLES.

    Sir,—The recent death of Miss Nightingale has, as the newspapers informed us, earned panegyrics to be written in every land where English is spoken; and no doubt such will ...

    Article : 240 words
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