Country Life
RECENTLY the, subject was raised over the microphone as to why yew trees were planted in churchyards. The answers given by the experts were so unsatisfactory that it is worth......
A Bee's Example
My autumn occupation is to watch A bumble-bee rifling a bramble flower. The golden process looks as though an hour Will not suffice, so leisurely the despatch With which the......
The Sacred Yew
Dr. Vaughan Cornish in The Churchyard Yew and Immortality has given substantial evidence for the churchyard yew being as archaic a symbol of immortality as the last sheaf ift......
Music
THE Three Choirs Festival at Worcester followed a normal and largely uneventful course. It is fundamentally a regional festival, a celebration of the quite remarkable musical......
Art
THE Celtic romanticism that has led many of his countrymen into a humourless gloom infuses Ceri Richards' kaleidoscopic improvisa- tions at the Redfern Gallery with a refreshing......
In The Garden
To cover a hideous bird-table, I planted years ago a sprig of honey- suckle given me by a village dame of ninety-two. It has become a gigantic bush, and this week I saw first a......
Round-headed Rampion
I wonder whether this beautiful Doivnland campanula with its deep blue terminal head an inch in diameter is as uncommon as is supposed. I found it abundant and growing on stems......
The Red Squirrel
When I was in Devonshire, I noted with great regret that the grey squirrel had driven out the red as far west as the Otter River. Yet a friend tells me that, as she was sitting......
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