5 JUNE 1953, page 18

Country Life

STANDING on the road, I watched a lark descending. It twittered as it came down and then, as larks do, it cut off its little song abruptly, and dropped on to the grass. 1 was......

Polyanthus Split Up Polyanthus During The Next Week Or Two.

I find that the best time is when the soil is wet. No amount of watering can establish split-up plants so well as those placed in naturally moist soil. Like pansies, they do......

Frog-legs

My reference to frogs a few months ago has brought me an article from the New Yorker, forwarded by E. E. Hoyt of Ames, Iowa; and, reading it, I have discovered some wonderful......

Bonfires

By the time these words are in print the bonfires that are being built will be in ashes. Now, on the top of more than one hill round about, I can see a mound that has been......

A Wasp's Nest

Usually the queen wasp manages to steal a march on her enemies and her brood is out in force before anyone knows where the nest is situated; hut, passing along a path that......