More Polecats
A sad fatality, in which a baby was bitten by a polecat, has made public the revival of this animal, which at one time was thought to have gone the way of the pine-marten. It......
Winter Catkins A Writer On Winter Flowering Shrubs, A Most
prolific subject, expresses an almost venomous dislike of Garrya elliptica. It has not, of course, the quaint freshness of the witch hazel, but it has long seemed to me one of......
A New Theory A Theory Both New And Plausible Has
been suggested to me by a young naturalist who is likely to make fame : it will excuse a further reference to the now rather hoary problem of the spotted woodpecker's music. The......
A Garden Poison
That excellent mstitution the Board of Green-keeping Research, which works on behalf of the British Golf Unions, has completed an enquiry into a new poison of rather more......
Country Life
More Subsistence Production The admirable farms, gardens, crafts and industries for unemployed miners organised under the general title of " Sub- sistence production," are......
The Squirrels Hoard In Parts Of Buckinghamshire And...
walnut tree that fruited was cleared by..gtey squirrels. I gave one particular example the other day ; another example, from Buckinghamshire, suggests that the squirrels picked......
A Tall Dog Story
This Christmas (which is, of course, a story-telling season) I was told with full detail and great conviction the tallest story of a dog's intelligence and skill in orientation......