Forbidden Rivers
Staying almost on the banks of the Wye, that dancing river, I desired to walk beside it, but the difficulties, whether up or down, were almost insurmountable. Apart from other......
Butterfly Hosts The Other Day I Saw (for The First
time) a considerable number of the caterpillars of the swallowtail butterfly feeding on their proper plant. This glorious butterfly has increased greatly of late years. Last......
Field Studies A Little Function Is To Be Celebrated On
July 23rd which should interest a wide circle of artists, naturalists et hoc genus omne. Flatford Mill, where Constable was miller's boy, is to be formally opened as the first......
Art
IT is not clear to me why art and sport should be so antipathetic in the middle of the twentieth century. Partly, perhaps, it is the fear in subtle minds of windy rhetoric, for......
Country Life
IT is fatally easy to indulge in superlatives, but I cannot find a less extreme form of words to describe this year's harvest. In Norfolk I walked by a narrow path through a......
In The Garden Insistent Pleas For Roses Grown On Their
own roots (as being longer lived and free from suckers) continue to be totally disregarded by nursery- men. This is natural enough in regard to the best bedding roses (say, the......
The Spectator Overseas.
It is still difficult for your friends abroad to obtain THE SPECTATOR owing to currency restrictions. Why not take out a subscription for them? Rates : Ordinary edition to any......
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