26 MAY 1939, page 19

Convicted Egg Stealers It Is Good News For All Those

who care for the preservation of our birds, especially the rarer birds, that the magistrates have just given a salient example of their defence of the law in regard to......

A Sycamore Fiddle The Shire Of Oxford, If Not The

city and the University, is the home of coming causes: it becomes an accepted pioneer in certain lines of rural development. Its annual agricultural show, which displays......

Rural Posters An Admirable Half-dozen Pages, Covered With...

and words of wisdom, have been put forth by the Lanca- shire branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. It is called "Posters and the Public." The special plea......

Predacious Gulls The Characters Of Birds Are Continually...

by admirers, but it is regrettable to confess that in regard to some species the whitewash is being removed. Almost all the gulls come into the new index expurgaiorius. The......

In The Garden Many Perhaps Of Those Who Walked Past

the immeasurable splendour of the Chelsea Flower Show (which is the best in the world) will confess when all is over that "one only thing remains to me "; they learnt one thing......

Country Life

Set Blossom There is every indication of a bumper season in fruit, of which the humble gooseberry, always associated with Whitsun- tide, is the first-fruits. Seldom was more......