30 JUNE 1933, page 15

Country Life

TUE DODIR OF THUNDER. A thunderstorm may be a very terrible thing. As some of us looked at one of the latest over a broad grass field a crash and a flash, as nearly as may be,......

The Thunderstorm Of Which I Write Was Accompanied, Though...

air was very warm, with heavy hail. In some few places the ground was white as with snow. And thence another mystery. Hail has its favourite narrow belts, as most countrymen......

Professor Salisbury Is Particularly Interested In The...

the newer causes as well as the older. We know that the railway is a distributor of seed—has, for example, carried a hire wall senecio from Oxford to Win- chester. Professor......

Trees In Art.

The ingenious editor of the Tree Qoarterly has been holding an exhibition . of drawings of trees at the Fine Arts in New Bond Street. It is, I think, the first time I ever saw......

Sheep And Stamps.

Have you ever seen a sheep on a postage stamp The more or less new centenary stump of the Falkland Islands "features," as they say, a length drawing of one of the most......

Flower Sanctuaries.

cannot escape from the subject of flower sanctuaries. The latest news comes from East Anglia. I suppose that among the - mhst peculiar districts in England is the so-called......

This Year's Acreage Under Sugar Beet Is The Biggest Ever

known in Britain ; and will probably be the biggest in history ; and where such disasters as the hail have not befallen it, the crops (as indeed almost all crops) look......

A Cucsoo's

• A young cuckoo in a robin's nest in my neighbourhood, Was fortunately hatched before the robins' own eggs which now litter the approaches. It is being fed with devotion by the......