7 DECEMBER 1929, Page 14

* * * * A singularly suggestive example of the

effect of creating a fenced sanctuary was told the other day, at a private discussion of the general subject, by one of our ablest and most constructive naturalists. He took a careful census of flowers on an area of several hundred acres about to be fenced. It contained exactly one foxglove and a very slight sprinkling of cowslips, orchises and daffodils. The very first year after preservation twenty foxgloves were flowering ; and the indications were that the other flowers, though they do not seed so freely or flower so soon, were multiplying to a like degree. And birds return almost as quickly as plants.