28 APRIL 1950, page 22

Tennyson's Natural History

Tennyson really was quite a good poet! This profound dictum follows the search for a quotation that had baffled the memory of a correspondent, to wit: " The music of the moon -......

In The Garden

The effects of a continuous downpour have been almost startling. Green lines appeared suddenly in our potagers, the grass began 'almost to wave, birds united in song, rabbits......

Inter-shire Visits

A properly constituted trust has this advantage over a more loosely defined society, that it can keep mopping up desirable sites, as the Norfolk example triumphantly proves.......

• They Have Since Shown Themselves Equal To The...

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Punctual Birds

Is it an early spring? Most of the migrant birds, swallow, cuckoo and nightingale at any rate, have turned up pat to the standard dates. The few unduly early appearances, as of......

Country Life .

THE shires (how many deserve to be called counties?) begin to follow the inspiring lead of Norfolk in the formation of Naturalists' Trusts. The Yorkshire Trust is celebrating a......