21 APRIL 1928, Page 12

If any one week or day of the English year

is more lovely than any other it is now, when the leaf is breaking on late- flowering trees and the blossom anticipates the leaf on early- flowering trees. To take just one or two examples of each : the guicks and chestnuts are at their prettiest and loveliest in ; and the pears, plums and wild cherries are domes of bridal White." At the same time the early spring flowers, Primrose, anemone, Lent lily and celandine, continue to Won: even more profusely. The base of the hedgerow is white with opening kek and stitchWort and -most of the newly arrived warblers are in song and-swallows on the wing.

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