3 JUNE 1949, page 15

A Garden Heresy A Finch In Ridge And Furrow Flight

Parades across the lawn, The thrushes sing into the night, And warblers hail the dawn ; The doves glide down at break of day To watch the thirsty wagtails play. Yes, yes, a......

International Duck The Nations, Whatever Their Political...

to co- operate with great efficiency over the study as well as the preservation of birds. A striking example is the formation of the British Branch of the Wildfowl Research......

From The Greek Now That Spring Comes, My Friend, With

green and roses, Shall we not climb the headlands of the bay Once more ? Have we not watched there yesterday Those whom forever now the earth encloses ? Phdodemus. I LONG for......

Spectator

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In The Garden Great Flower-shows, Such As Chelsea, May Make

humble gardeners despair, so resplendent are some of the novelties ; but, after all, species are often better than hybrids—as in tulips and blue poppies or even irises—and new......

Country Life

MAY stole a good many things from June. There were bowls of many sorts of roses in the house on May 20th in the Midlands and doubtless much earlier in the South. In the same......

Defeated Plans

It is pointed out by the most energetic of all branches of the C.P.R.E., the Sheffield and Peak District Branch, that at the date of the passing of the National Parks Bill—a......

Music

WITH The Ring, Tristan, Beethoven's Mass in D and Schubert's great C major symphony the last fortnight has been something like a festival of nineteenth-century German music, The......