The Archive · 1939

An English Failing

The London Transport Beard have had to make @ humiliate in inclination for French frocks, Eng-modern young ladies with a strong Rabbits' Tails Deputize for Bees covering.

A picture taken in Chichester nurseries last month, where, in greenhouses an area of three acres, with rabbits' tails fastened to the ends of canes went among the blooms peach blossom was at its best. Girls dusi the pollen, thus inoculating the flowers. This is the only method by which inoculation is possible, owing to the absence of bees at this time of the year.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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