18 JANUARY 1935, page 16

Winter Flowers That Accomplished Botanist And...

has made a list of plants flowering at Kew at Christmas. It numbers 95, and pays a high tribute to our climate. The list opens with several sorts of rhododendron, heather and......

A Conservator's Troubles The Work Of The Wardens Would Not,

of course, be confined to reporting abuses or making private pleas, they would give information that would result in direct action. It is really very difficult to know what one......

A Poet's Vision This Is Not The Only Reference To

lightning and the oak that I have come upon this week. In a little book of lyrics of really high distinction (The Magic Grape of Reginald Cripps, Bell) published some fifteen......

Country Life

Country Wardens A new body of protectors of rural England is being organized by the C.P.R.E. from Great Marlborough Street, though the members of the force are to be all country......

Direct Action There Are Many Questions Very Difficult To...

; but the C.P.R.E., which is associated in this new venture with a number of its constituent societies, has the legal knowledge at its fingers' ends as it has the principle of......

The Vulnerable Oak

A note, that entirely supports the experience of recent storms in England that the oak has an electric affmity, appears in a charming life of Warde Fowler, just published. The......

And Watchers The New Wardens Will In Some Measure Fulfil

the part of the sanctuary watchers, though their primary object is to educate the public. All rural England should be regarded as a sanctuary, a holy place where you can saunter......

A Classical. Naturalist The Classical Comparison Is Very...

Fowler reversed the role of Gilbert. White. He was a classical scholar first and a lover of birds second ; but it was perhaps his love of birds and natural history in general......