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...Cupressus sempervirens is now advertised by suppliers as hardy down to -20C, but I never see it risked in most of Britain....
...These clothes, by contrast, will last a lifetime: in hardy wools, canvas-lined, they were substantial....
...From £960; thewordtravels.com Hardy in Dorset HF Holidays runs a week-long tour through literary Dorset, exploring Thomas Hardy’s roots, as well as sites associated with Jane Austen....
...“When you grow up in the southern hemisphere, there’s a tendency to believe that everyone in England is reading Hardy and Eliot all the time....
...When Thomas Hardy heard his darkling thrush on a gloomy winter afternoon at the turn of the 20th century, he felt the bird must have access to some source of hope denied to the apprehensive poet, full of...
...Tory attitude to the countryside as old-fashioned and feudalistic, suggesting that with their own, Whiggish prescription for the landscape garden they were honouring the ancient precedents of Pliny and Virgil...
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