16 APRIL 1927, page 11

London And Its Rats.

. All naturalists know that the old black rat of England was driven out by the bigger, more voracious and destructive grey rat of Norway, which is said to commit damage every......

A Ittenris Humoun.

A delightful incident, illustrating the tolerant humour of the domestic dog, occurs frequently among the live-stock of a llemestead in the Eastern Counties. The favourite......

A Neglected Plant.

In the garden of an Oxfordshire insLjone - of the - many delightful " Spread Eagles "—is growing a vivid patch of Mertensia Virginiea which its cultivator puts down as a......

Plants And The Esu'iae.

The immense power for good—in the domain not of politics but of economic science—possessed by an Empire so fur-flung as the British, is being brought into the open, rather sur-......

April And Tennyson.

It has been said that April is Chaucer's month and May Shakespeare's. To go further down the scale than these giants, it occurs to me that no one has ever approached Tennyson in......

Country Life And Sport

Ax EASTER CouseumseE. Easter falls this year at the date which begins their English season for a good many birds. Year after Year, with admirable punctuality, we first hear the......