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What Is A Hand Glass

By Janice Sherwood · 15 years ago

A hand glass is, square glass house in miniature. Its sides are about eight inches high from the ground to the eves. The roof rises from each side in a triangular form, so that it ...

Endless is the variety of sorts. Some are dwarfs, some climbers; but, the mode of propagating and cultivating is nearly the same in all, except that the dwarfs require smaller distances than the climbers, and ...

The Cost Of Creating A Fence

By Janice Sherwood · 15 years ago

A hedge five clear feet high may be got in six years from the day of planting. And, now let us see what it has cost to get this fence round my proposed garden, which, ...

All About Growing Flowers

By Janice Sherwood · 15 years ago

If the American Farmer have no taste for flowers, his wife and daughters may; and this part of the book can, at any rate, do him no harm. Under the head of Flowers come flowering ...

All About Beet

By Janice Sherwood · 15 years ago

This vegetable, which is little used in England, is here in as common use as carrots are there. It should be sown in the fall but, if not, as soon as the ground is free ...

The Patterns Of Intelligence In Apes

By Janice Sherwood · 15 years ago

The use of tools in the feral by chimpanzees has been practical and well established for sometime now and in detail just chimps have also been practical successfully hunting lemurs with crude yet person-crafted spears. ...

The Gorilla Is The Species

By Janice Sherwood · 15 years ago

Gorillas are threatened mandrills species in the world with the residual living in Africa and in countries Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo. Knowing to be the principal living primates on Earth, Gorillas are ...