11 SEPTEMBER 1953, page 15

Magpies In Flight.

Magpies always seem . badly, suited to the business of flying for they have a top-heaviness that makes them pitch and dive in the air and sometimes they are not unlike fish.......

Country Life

As I write, the rain is being driven by the wind, beating through the hedge, driving leaves from the sycamores and the elms and screening everything beyond the trees so that the......

Aftermath Of Fire.

In the earlier part of the year we had a fire that raged through duo gorse on the hill and made skeletons of more than one hedge thee kept sheep from the gardens. Everyone set......

Dead Voles Field Voles Are Fond Of Making Their Homes

in our rockeries where they tunnel and make their living chambers in the shelter .of large stones. More than once I have had occasion to reset the stones and have• discovered a......

Old Canes A Note About Cutting Back Raspberry And Loganberry

canes brings a card from the Rev. A. Lyle Harrison of Rostrevor, Co. Down, who Wants me to be explicit, I think. Leave enough new canes for next season and cut out the old ones......