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If you are still storing any apples from last season, and wondering what to do with them, blackbirds love them!

Howgate Wonder is a widely planted variety in gardens and to a small extent for the Farm Shop trade. It is famous for producing exceptionally large apples and this variety often wins the ‘heaviest apple’ competition at the National Fruit Show in Kent. Howgate Wonder is valued also for its good regular crops and for its hardiness – it can withstand harsh frosts. Howgate Wonder can be used for cooking and for eating. It was raised in Howgate Lane, Bembridge, Isle of Wight from a Blenheim Orange, Newton Wonder cross in 1915 – 16 and introduced in 1932.

Anyone for breakfast?

Euphorbia, I think! Plant gifted by a friend several years ago, has spread like a weed!

The Abney level was invented by Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney (Born 24 Jul 1843 Died 3 Dec 1920) who was an English astronomer and chemist best known for his pioneering of color photography and color vision. Abney invented this instrument under the employment of the School of Military Engineering in Chatham, England in the 1870s. It is described by W. & L. E. Gurley as an English modification of the Locke hand level, noting that it gives angles of elevation and is also divided for slopes, as 1 to 2, 2 to 1, etc. Since the main tube of this instrument is square, it can be applied to any plane surface. The clinometer scale is graduated to degrees, and read by vernier to 5 minutes. This one was used for surveying, in the laying out and extension of tea estates in Sylhet in the 1920s.

Amigo

Amaryllis seem to open as you watch. The initial growth of the stem is like watching a beanstalk sprout!

Finally there!

Amaryllis Day Twenty-Two

Amaryllis Day Seventeen (2)

Amaryllis Day Seventeen (1)