24 NOVEMBER 1939, page 14

Nature Calendars

It is a pity that some of the smaller societies have not been able to hold on. Among those that have suspended animation is B.E.N.A., whose periodical and annual diary have been......

An English Vintage

This year will remain famous in country annals for the superabundance of apples, especially of bitter-sweets or cider apples. Trees of Rayon d'Or broke themselves in pieces with......

Romeo's Nights

By CLELAND SCOTT I N many ways there is a similarity between lions and man ; in adolescence there is a good deal of the hoyden about the male, and as he grows up he generally......

Autumnal Rivalry

The claim for Warwickshire and Hertfordshire that they were still producing plentiful raspberries seems to have stirred general rivalry, and accounts of overflowing dishes of......

Country Life

An Altruistic Bouquet Some of the little evacuated urban children will have to be classed with the green plover as supreme friends of agri- culture. I met one little girl almost......