17 MAY 1935, Page 16

The keepers of. country. calendars have Made many new records

• this spring,- though not everything is early. I -found May blossom fully opened (in Hampshire) on May 1st. Foxtail grasses were in full seed before Easter Sunday, and the cotton grass was very cottony last week in Devon. For myself I heard cuckoo and nightingale land saw the martin) at the end of the second week of- April. It is remarkable that (if grown trees only are reckoned and not saplings) the oak was a good fortnight in front of the ash. What might that