6 DECEMBER 1935, page 16

A Sheltering Gold-crest

Another little incident of the week in natural history may be worth recording. An ardent student of birds was walking aciess a Lilt of rough, rather marshy ground not so far......

The Value Of Ashes It Is One Of The Wonders

of the English garden that it can induce plants from the mountains even of Asia and Europe to flourish on the plain. Our rock, or scree gardens, to use a phrase growing into......

Winter Babies

Is it general, or is it a peculiarity of one place, that the hedge- hogs, those queer nocturnal hibernating animals, have bred families in the late autumn ? Two......

A Winter Albino

' This is the true story of a bird that willingly exchanged freedom for captivity. A doctor in a Home County keeps a few birds in cages that are large enough to be called......

Pigeons And Peregrines It Is A Far Cry From The

wren to the hawk (though there is a legend that the wren won the kingship of birds by settling on the eagle's back). A more or less new threat against the biggest and finest of......

Country Life

Hired Cows A much advertised change in farming finance is likely to stir a new and national effort towards the provision of cheap credit to farmers ; and the reasons for the......