Flower Names.
[TO THE EDITOR Or TUN " SPACTATOR.'1 SLE,^-Is it not partly the commercial exploitation of country flowers which is obliterating their pretty local names,—that and the lessons......
Presents By Animals.
[TO TIM EDITOR OF TIER " SPECTATOR:9 SIE,—Some months ago I read in the Spectator that anineels rarely, if ever, make presents to one another. They do some- times, however, and......
The Use Of The "de."
[To T HE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 have often heard the statement made, as your reviewer puts it in his notice of Mr. Lucas's "A Wanderer in Paris" (Spectator, August 14th),......
Do Animals Reason?
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—The following facts I can vouch for from personal knowledge, as I was at the time resident in my father's house where they occurred.......
[to Tier Editor 07 The "ersozitos.") Reference To "w. L.
M's" query in your last issue, is it not possible that " Turn-again " is a corruption of "Mar/agora." P I know instances of similar oorruption in our own garden. Our gardener, a......
[to Tins Editor Or The "spscr■tos."] Sir,—i Am Reminded By
the correspondence in your columns of a village child, who brought me the tiny - wild heartsease common on Wiltshire downs with: "Be the right name for they pansy or lovalidus?"......
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