22 OCTOBER 1932, page 13

Our Bare Autumns.

In the fields as in the gardens the season has produced some prodigies. We found, for example, a 'willow in flower. The so-called " pussy " bud was well out of its case. The......

Gritii Fyrd.

Some further inquiry into the aims and activities of the ingenious group of craftsmen who have christened themselves Grith Fyrd suggests that the idea is acquiring a good deal......

The Goldfinch Is A Good Choice. It Is Perhaps The

most charmingly coloured of all our birds. The red and yellow and white compose well with the thistle head on which he is poised like a " sailor tomtit by the knees." The......

The Planting Of Slag Heaps Is Specifically Mentioned....

research into this form of gardening was carried out many years ago in the neighbourhood of Aberdare, where most flourishing groves, some containing quite large trees, came into......

This Takes Us A Long Way From Norwich Where The

honorary secretary of the Norfolk Naturalists Trusts, Dr. Sydney Long, issues the Christmas cards from 31 Surrey Street. They cost 4d. each, or 4s. a dozen, plus 3d. a dozen for......

Sundial Fashions.

The sundial which excited the most intellectual brains in the seventeenth century is said to be coining back into favour, not least in "the home of lost causes." I recorded some......

The Coloured Pictures In This Book Of Oxford Gardens Are

less suggestive of their spirit than Miss Rolide's ingenious selection of historical anecdotes ; and her botany (in strong contrast to her ornithology) is good and full. There......

Country Life

A BENEFICENT CHRISTMAS CARD. Among other energetic bodies, the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust is already anticipating Christmas. For the third year it is issuing a Christmas card of......