6 JANUARY 1939, page 22

Suggesting Spring Two Sorts Of Christmas Present Seem To...

been the vogue this year : one was the nesting box, the other the lily bulb. Both carried the expectant mind forward to the spring. We were solaced in the frost, though......

Country Life

Flying from Frost The snow and frost did not altogether stop the songs of thrush and robin ; but general vitality fell ; and local migrations of a sudden impulse took place. The......

In The Garden A Rather New, But Already Very Pleasant,

garden has just received a charming decoration. A concrete birdlpond- has been inserted in a corner of the lawn, and at one end of its seductive pattern—it is narrow with two......

Amateur Apparatus

So too it is satisfactory to possess the right apparatus for containing the food of birds. A very wise commentator has been broadcasting advice upon the exact size of hole......

A Queer Plant

An international group of botanists and biologists have begun to adopt the habit of putting forth a yearly problem, and seeking information on it from all who have made any......