5 JULY 1935, page 20

Green "litterature"

Personally, and in regard to a particular Common much defaced by litter, I could find no one to tell me whether the County Council had adopted this law or not. A direct letter .......

A Flycatcher's Choice On The Walls Of A Cottage Well

decked with the climbing plants they love it has been the habit of a flycatcher to build year after year. The selection of the place was regarded as a family tradition. Then, to......

Negative Lords

The places that suffer most are the Commons. Now of recent days there have come into existence bodies known as Conservators, a word taken perhaps from Theodore Roosevelt's great......

The Royal

The Royal Agricultural Show takes place this year at New- castle. I attended it many years ago in the same place ; and the crowds were the biggest I ever saw at any agricultural......

Lilies At The R.h.s.

The fortnightly shows of the R.H.S. grow better and better, and more and more popular ; and the first July shows will be of particular interest. They will represent a very......

Country Life

Litter There is a by-law, adopted by most County Councils in - England, which is not only " honoured in the breach but also unknown to most of those who disregard it, as to......

An Old Nursery Some Ornithologist Has, I Believe, Been...

for evidence on the use of a nest for a second or third brood. Even this is not common, indeed, is rare, except with the swallow tribe and some of the birds that live in holes.......

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A Wren's Adventure Again, a nest built but not used by the first architect has been one of the curiosities of this year's garden. A robin built on a bank very early in the year......