The Rookery

In the spring when we passed along that way we stopped to listen to the colony in the tops of the elm trees, as fine a rookery as 1 have seen. Every tree had one or two nests.......

Moss Holes

Rain runs quickly off the hills in Wales but, in the lower ground,where the water gets away much slower, there are many bog holes and depressions filled with weed and moss. One......

Nature And Nature's Laws Lay Hid In Night; God Said,

Let Newton be! and all was light, and .1. C. Squire's rejoinder: It could not last. The Devil, shouting Hot Let Einstein be! restored the status quo, competitors are asked (for......

Depressing Remarks

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 246 Report by Richard Usborne 4 prize of ES was offered for a set of six thoroughly depressing parental, conjugal, school- magisterial or......

Refuse Disposal

Every gardener who cultivates all his ground finds himself with the problem of refuse disposal. With most things a good compost heap serves, but hedge clippings have to be dealt......

Count Y Life

Ar the end of the trout season I usually find my tackle spread about in various places and have to bring it all to the small cabinet where it rests between October and March.......