As To The Partridge I See That A Number Of
correspondents to several newspapers are urging a reform of the Game Laws that has long seemed to me desirable and to be founded on good natural history. Now that there is real......
Nothing Pays The Garden Observer Better Than The Bird Bath,
especially if there are goldfinches in the neighbourhood. It rivals the cornflower as an attraction to this species. Perhaps because more gardeners have found this out, no form......
Thistle Destruction.
The discovery of a remedy against nettles (many times referred to in the Spectator and many more times asked for) has been followed by the finding of a cure for thistles. This......
Country Life
THE POPULAR DUST BATH. In a Norfolk village by the sea, just before the " weapon- still-stand " came to an end with the arrival of September, a covey of partridges appeared each......
The Too Open Season.
The first of September and the first week or two of September are not what they once were ; and this year some of the barleys are still uncut. Does anyone anywhere still use the......
Urbane Cottages.
The rural spirit is perhaps as strong in Devon as in any county of England ; and to the architect of its county council, Mr. Percy Morris, we owe words of particular wisdom on......
Another Sort Of Attack On Yet Rarer Hawks Is To
be chronicled. A group of nests of a very rare hawk was discovered by a naturalist in Surrey—of all unlikely counties. In order to defeat the egg collector, the eggs were marked......
In Older Days I Have Travelled Again And Again Along
one particular stretch of the Great North Road in autumn and been accompanied the whole way by the song either of the yellow-hammer or the corn-bunting. To-day the same stretch......
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