A Struck Chestnut
The claim of the statisticians that no chestnut tree is known to have been struck by lightning appears to have at least one exception. Mr. Noel Sutton, a botanist of a great......
Small Bird Enemies Laments For The Scarcity Of Small Birds
have reached me from a number of. places—all fortunately outside England. In England the only complaints--and they are few—concern the multiplicity of just two species :......
Many Mansions
The sequel to a story about a pair of swallows told last summer has just become known to me ; and as swallow-time is approaching and the incident is curious, it may not be......
Country Life
Bagmen Both foxhunters and humanitarians have given me much evidence that the enlarging of tame foxes, to which I called attention the other day, is a growing habit ; and is......
An Old Gardener's Prayer
The following quaint verses—a sort of prayer for what is called the green hand or green thumb—has been dug up and sent me by a correspondent. It is not great or grammatical......
Dispersed Lightning Lightning May Play Curious Tricks...
I know one lime tree in the garden of a charming house in Herefordshire, which is now a curious as well as a rather sorry spectacle. The tips of most boughs suddenly died or......
A Proud Hunt
The bagged fox has always been both a jest and a byword ; but the modern methods are in places much more wholesale than they used to be and the association with the rabbit-......
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