Quiz of the week
1) Which is Britain’s largest cathedral?
2) What’s a name for a male otter?
3) Victoria was known as the grandmother of Europe, but how many grandchildren did she have?
4) After Great Britain and Ireland, which is the largest island in the British Isles?
5) Which two great architects worked together in the 19th century to remodel the Houses of Parliament?
Word of the week
Dissight (noun) Eyesore
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE January 27, 1923
IT is difficult to say whether the flower year begins in December or in January, so we are thankful for the long season of blossoming of the Christmas roses (). The always-welcome yellow winter aconite) is a true January flower and a most accommodating plant, spreading by self-sown seed under leafless shrubs or in any odd corner. It is cheap and should be planted by the hundred. About fifty years ago our gardens were enriched by the introduction of the Algerian, or, properly,. In warm, sheltered places, it is in bloom in all open weather from November to April. Unopened buds may be cut if frost threatens and are delightful indoors, not only for the clear-cut form and good lavender blue of the flowers, but also for the pleasant scent, like violets—
