Glassy Gardens I Like The Story (which Has Pleased The
manufacturers. of cloches) of a swan that dived among the gardens just outside Cheltenham because it mistook the carpet of glass for water. Just such an impression- struck me......
Every Bearing Frost Sends My Memory Back To The Fens
of Huntingdon and Cambridge, where alone (unless the rivers freeze as in '61 and '82) skating is a real mode of motion. The most famous of the Fens in ice-time is Lingay,......
Syllabus Religion Sut,—a. V. Murray, In Condemning Agreed...
containing too much, misses the main point. The more there is in an agreed syllabus the wider surely is the area of agreement and the greater the choice for the teacher. Has......
February Hunger
It behoves bird-lovers to remember that birds need more food in the later frost than the early. They store fat against the winter ; but have less of it to draw upon when St.......
Belittled Bees There Seems To Be A Growing Theory (which
I do not endorse) that hive bees after all are not of much use as pollinators. A great fruit-grower and ex-beekeeper in Herefordshire (at this unseasonable date) avers that he......
In My Garden On The Subject Of Cloches, Which In
Britain have quite ousted the bell- jar, but not the Dutch frame, they are perhaps most useful in this month of February (if it should improve at all on the last week of......
,sta,—the Review Of My Book Estimating Housing Needs In The
Spectator of January 24th is a distortion of its scope, which is clearly stated in Sir Patrick Abercrombie's foreword, and indeed in the title. I do not assume, not even for a......
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