4 JULY 1925, Page 23

BIRDS AND FRUIT NETS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—Now that the fruit season is once more in full swing, will you allow me to remind those among your readers who own gardens, that while nets are very necessary to protect the fruit from the ravages of the little feathered thieves who love it, yet they should be carefully watched so that any of those same little thieves, who may have become entangled in their meshes, shall not be left to pay the extreme penalty of the law by dying a slow death from hunger or thirst.--I am, Sir, &e.. ELEANOR MELLY. 53 Drayton Gardens, S. Kensington.