20 JULY 1945, page 9

Country Life

HARVEST and Haysel have coincided in my neighbourhood. The meadow hay was cut late. The oats have ripened early. In saving, or salving, hay more use is made each year of common......

In My Garden In A Northern Garden I Admired, Though

it was queer rather than lovely, a plant that was quite new to me, and carried off some seedlings. It is Morina Longifolia. The leaves are the leaves of a giant thistle, but the......

A Double Nest

In a child's bedroom in Oxford a robin has built a nest, and brought up a family, in a bookcase in a space left at the end of the shelf. This in itself is no oddity. For......

Professor Burnett

By M. W. PALMER I T is easy to be dogmatic and sentimental about the coloured question in America. It is easy to settle our neighbours' pro- blems when they are not our own ;......

A Fireweed Census

About half of Scotland has written, in response to a perhaps foolish query about the habitat of the rosebay willow-herb, to say in effect that it is likely to be " the curse of......