10 OCTOBER 1947, page 14

Tie Best View—and It Is A Very Spacious One—to Be

found in my neigh- bourhood is to be enjoyed from the top of an abrupt chalk mound rather than hill ; and beneath your feet are some of the most characteristic chalk flowers.......

The Absent Keeper

How surprising are some of the changes that influence preservation ! It is pointed out, for example, that a number of flowers have quite dis- appeared for the reason that game......

County Pride

Now the mound referred to is just inside Bedfordshire ; and that pleasant shire, like many others, has just begun to publish a Bedfordshire magazine ; and a very good one. I......

In My Garden There Is No Question But That The

most gorgeous example of autumn coloration in the garden is the Rhus C,otinoides. It quite out:flames the charming Rhus Cotinus ; and is much superior to the common sumach......

Northern Visitors

In the records of the exceptional immigration of moths and butterflies of this year (especially of White, Clouded Yellow and Hawlonoths) little has been said of their extension......

Exhibition Of Male Costume. (victoria And Albert)

Tim human male has long since given up the idea that he needs any exterior embellishments in order to attract the female of the species. With consummate arrogance he now assumes......