6 MAY 1938, page 17

Pheasant Or Grouse An Introduction To Scotland Which Seems A

superfluity, if no worse, is the pheasant. Large numbers are being reared this year and the population of this conventional fowl continues to increase greatly, not least in the......

In The Garden

That great writer on gardens, Mr. Clutton Brock, used to say that no rock garden plant excelled lithospermum prostratum. He wrote, I think, of the dark blue variety (not of the......

The People Of The North People In The Less Fortunate

south of our island are apt to think of Scotland as chiefly distinguished by its moors and hills and so-called forests, all perhaps a little bleak when compared with the garden......

Common Rights

On the subject of preservation, an official request reached me this week for information on the right of the Lord of the Manor or the local councils to make a road across a......

Scottish Preservers

The C.P.R.E., which held its annual meeting this week, should take note that in England, though not in Scotland, the parish councils are beginning to take active steps to......

Country Life

European Weather This little Northern Island of ours often enjoys—if that is the word—a sort of weather almost peculiar to itself. It is far warmer than its latitude and vastly......

Food And Song

The weather brought less usual visitors to many bird-tables One very lively account has been given me of a robin that quite successfully imitated the tits in making a meal off a......

Jaques' Thrush Through Sun And Rain He Sits And Sings

And I am fain To do as he, For sun and rain are pleasant things Also to me, So why should I with teasing thought Bring these sweet natural joys to nought ?......