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Wo aro navor without flowbrs in England, comments a writer in the Spectator. In the Isle of Wight and in Cornwall ro308 bloom in every month of the yoar and pn occasion-last December for instanco-a bowl of them may be plucked to adorn the Christmas tablo. That most un-rosaliko flower, tho. so-called Christmas roso, is always truo to the date in its name. Primroses and primulas are to be found in spinney and garden from Decom- ber to May. Very soon after the year opens number of both
cyclamen, hepatica, winter jas- mine, Daphne Mozerson-beloved of cottaLure aconito, coltsfoot, snowdrop, the dwarf crocuses, squills and chionodoxas with odd blooms of single arabis and nu- bristia. The hazol catkins shod their, yollow dust over the little crimson stars. The tassola on the poplars are purple. and purple grow the distant woods. Colour spreads like the approach of dawn; and who can say exact-: ly, as in an almanack, when the| great change begins and colour rises distinot above the horizon?
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Lecture by German Pilot.
A Zoppolin pilot lectured in London recently on Zeppeline, and praised the trans-Atlantic flight of the. British naval air ship R34.
He was Dr. Huge Eckenor, and was addressing the Royal Aer/ onautical Society. He recently piloted the ZR3 (now the Los Anglos) from Germany America..
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Ho said that ho considered the; trip of the R34 a much holder. feat than that of his more offici. ont and capablo airship.
Doaling with his flight tp America, Dr. Eckoner said that his principal concern was with the adequacy of the fuel supply. The ship caried 30 tons of fuel, and had to travel at re- duced spood, namely, with 300) horse power to each engine | instead of 400 horse-power. Tho air was extraordinarily turbulent ovor the water..
For several hours the ship travelled over the fog of Now. foundland bank at a height of 1,500 to 2,000 metres, riding quite calimly and steadily in a stiff north-ousterly wind.
The trip from the mouth of the Gironde to Sandy Hook lastod 70 hours, and with the exception) of a single broken cross-wire the ship suffered no damage what- soever,
He had made more than 2,000) trips in airships, and believed that a modern airship was at | least as capable in heavy weather
as a modern airplane.
To most of us perhaps the sonse of spring hardly comes home till the daffodils, the Lont lilies, lower on some early day in March, "the month that blooms! the whing." Earlier we have an- joyed sudden accesses of pleasuro in a plump of snowdrops in tho garden or a patch of coltsfoot in the field; and wondered at their
Theoretically he was convinces that lightning was not dangeroud unexpected powers of resisting cold. Soma curaful physicist dis-
to an airship. It was caught by' covered that the lianging bell of
the metallic girders, and proba.. bly found its exit somewhere the snowdrop, especially the
around single, hold a drop of air two de-saw them "shifting the light" in absolutely necessary, however, tho stern. It was grecs warmer than the surround-a March wind, and must have that an airship must not let out ing atmosphere. Not till the delighted the eyes of Tennyson any gas. thermometer was thirty dograce every year of his later fo, Two did it freeze within the boll; and Indeed, the flower seems to have future development of the airship:
vital changes in the it was warmer yet in the snug peculiarly close connexion with must be the nursery where the soads were men of letter. If anyone should hydrogen entirely harmless by rendering of born. The oöltsfoot, which wish to make pilgrimage to its partial use of helium and by sub- makes splendid deep yellow headquarters,, two shrines may stituting crude oil for benzine. masses of colour in the vory be named: one is the paddock in barrénest places, braves the front of Lord Tonnyson's house MOTOR ROAD TO BRIGHTON. season. quito naked. Not at Freshwater in tho. Isle of leaf is in sight and the Weight, the other Mackery Bud flower star is beld erect to receive in Hertfordshire, whero the the slings and arrows of whatever flowers have massed themselves tempest blows. But the onwrapp-round the aged trunka of Spanish ed stalk is proof against frost, as chestnuts in a paddock close a possibility of the near future if the vulnerable crocus is not. No beside the farmhouse celebrated flower is more surprising. It in the Elia essays. looks as if it had been set there The devices through the earth by caraful fingers as flowers are
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set in an indoor bowl. Spring in and stones and-worst barrier of some regards has curious anal-all-matted grass are many and scheme will be presented during ogios with autumn, but if a con-curious, but the "lifted sporra" of the autumn session.
the daffodils are the best instru- trast between the two seasons ment. The crocus flower has an long, and will cost £66,000 a mile. The motor way will be 33 milos and the mood of the two seasons)
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is needed, compare the blotched evenly rounded point. The clota- It will start at Tolworth (well and dirty leaves of the coltsfoot foots"thousand arrows" coal-named, for it is there that the on a muddy stubble in October esce into a blunter but harder tip: Brighton-bound motorist will with these elf like blooms of early and in general perhaps the flow-pay toll) on the Kingston by pass spring.
ers bave a more apply devised how under construction, and instrument than the leaves for finish at Albourne, several miles But the coltsfoot, the wild foruing their tender cells through from Brighton, where it will link primrose, or the violet, or any of the rough soil-por aspora ad up with a fine wide road now the February flowers must be astra. But the daffodil is an ox-being bufit." sought out, except in gardens; and ception. Its flower is pointed and Throughout its 38 miles it will evon there the massed' crocuses well protected but the leaves do avoid all large contres of popu- and snowdrops are humble and the work. They are flat and almost lation, and as there will be no low in the stom.
welded together, like the of blade spoed limit, it is estimated that it an American axo. They hail far will bring Brighton within an summer! not so much with a lifted hour and a half of London to the The daffodil is the first trumpot with a lifted knife-blade, and built on land which at present is spear, if one must be precise, as lavorage motorist. It is to be
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A gorgeous descendants of the Lent 50ft. wide road will have at least horbaceous border in summer. lily is to be found no single virtue five lines of traffic, and the sur- and the central tube ia so long and opens so wide that it not decipherable in the wild face will be made of an anti-skid suggests a comparison with the The virtues are underlined; that
ancestor, humble though it is, material... angels' trumpots in mediaeval is all. The trumpets and patale work out at about 2s. 6d. for a car The toll, it is expected, will; pictures. But the biggest, as the are enlarged. The soft gradations all the way, 18. 3d. for a motor- smallest, derive directly from the of tint between white and orange cycle, and 10d. per ton for com- Lunt lily, the native wild flower aro that inspired Wordsworth, as he Even the dashes of red, that
more abruptly aspirated, mercial vehicles.
Season tickets. between any make the glory of such varioties points on the road are to be as Barri conspicuous,. may be issued, and it is possible that a found occasionally in the wild reduction in toll will be granted daffodils-the pouts' and botanists in caso of a party of excursionists narcissus-that abound through-travelling in a fleet of charabance. out Europe.
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or and thero in England be allowed to use the which will grow lusty clumps of the double give employment to about 10,000 daffodil; but the pure-shaped men for two. yours. The schemo single flower-of snowdrop and will be put in hand as soon of snowflake as of the narcissus Parliamont passes the Bill. always precedes the double, and we may safely conclude that these are vagroms from a garden or the harvest of the, offorts of some flower-lover, who has con- sciously enriched the wild. Tho number of such bonefactors is indead becoming sp. largo that futuro botanists will havo moro - trouble`· than "we have in distinguishing the native from tho-alion. We livä! in so kindly a country that tho most distant strangers bocomo at: onco at homo. Who shall bo suro
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