24 MAY 1935, page 16

Country Life

Ice Saints The year has upheld so drastically the reputation . of the Drei Eismiinner that some details about these ill-omened saints may be worth repetition. They have pleasant......

A Common Experience, Which Continues To Surprise A Good Many

people, was peculiarly emphasized:` The gardens in the valley, especially the drier valleys, suffered very much more severely than those on . the hill. I made a sort of census......

A Garden Catalogue

The most interesting and :original experiment in rural arts and crafts that I know is being tried out at Dartington Hall in Devon. Research has been, and is being made into......

Careless Mothers Starlings Will Not Nest Except In A Hole,

and as holes arc in many places not frequent they are often in difficulties. They will enlarge nesting holes of boxes meant for tits and they will oust any hole-dwelling bird......

Western Nightingales -

No little excitement has been roused in Hereford by the arrival of a very *beat nightingale. It has not been known in the past either in the west or north of England ; and the......

Frost Or Fire?

How does it come about that the frost has effects which suggest rather fire . than cold ? Green leaves look black— as indeed do the centres of the killed blossom—as if they had......