12 MAY 1933, page 13

Toronto Squirrels.

I have been making sonic enquiries about the behaviour of the musk-rat in his native country ; and have so far heard very_ little to his discredit. It is abroad that he behaves......

English Bulbs.

There are no better bulbs grown in the world than round about Holbeach (where I am most familiar with our new bulb culture). Holland cannot, and does not, surpass us ; but it is......

Country Life

THIS ENGLAND. Sometimes the beauty of England quite overwhelms one ; and this year the green vitality of the country seems to have penetrated into the heart of the towns. There......

One Feature Of The Industry That Steadily Grows Is The

glass- house. One of the newer houses stands at the top of a gentle slope that announces a great experiment in land reclamation by - the Romans. So are our days bound each to......

A Somewhat Similar Question (though The Answer Cannot Be The

same) was put to me many years ago by a wanderer along the South Coast. He found a line of white stones arranged along the cliff at a foot or so from the edge. It Was at first......

A Stony Problem.

The following queer query vexes the curiosity of a neighbour. On the edge of the grass lawn close to the gravel path are continually found small collections of pebbles of......

Insular Beet

The politics of sugar beet are likely to flutter the dove-cotes. There is also a botanic difficulty that is troubling our men of science. When the industry was started little or......

African Swifts

Another query—about the migration of the swallow and the swift—has evoked from Johannesburg a letter which increases the mystery. "The swifts," says my correspondent, "arrived......