20 JUNE 1931, page 14

The Other Oddity Is Reported Of A Laburnum Tree In

Shrop- . shire. On one and the same bough are growing flowers of three colours and of a certain difference of shape. Alongside the normal yellow bloom are small blue and rather......

The E.m.b.

The Empire Marketing Board were, as one , might expect, very quick to see the possibilities of this form of fruit and vegetable preservation ; and you can buy cans under the......

The Little Grebe, Or Dabchick, Covers Up Her Eggs Even

more completely when she leaves the nest, and often the reedy and sedgy bits lie so naturally that from any distance you might be easily persuaded that the nest is empty. How......

The General Benefit Will Be Far-reaching. It Has Become An

established sacrifice in fruit production in England to allow the fruit to rot on the trees and bushes in years of glut. It was done last year. Hundreds of tons of gooseberries......

Freakish Habits.

Two oddities of habit—one in a bird, the other in a plant— are reported to me by credible witnesses. One has discovered within his premises in Monmouth, five thrushes' nests all......

Country Life

MORE PRESERVED FROM. Much general interest was expressed in the opening, last month, of a big cannery in the fruit-growing district of Worcestershire ; but I do not know whether......

A Bird Census.

Nothing in the life of our British birds has more astonished me—and, indeed, I have often reported it—than the multiplication of the greater-crested grebes, of which a census is......