Sta,—Your issue of January 17th has just reached me, and
in it I find Your "Country Life " correspondent asking for instances of mezereon growing wild. It grows, or in 1922 grew, wild on a stretch of common between Arnside and Silverdale in Westmorland. I have good cause to remember, for, being then at school at " Eamseat," Arnside, I found me7rreon and stinking hellebore, and saw a goldfinch (or was it a yellowhammer?) all on one day, for which hat-trick the headmaster promised me a reward of five shillings. I am now big ("lough, as I was not then, to remind him that that reward went unPaid, and to hint that in this year of Grace there are many good causes that would gladly be the richer by such a sum!
The mezereon, a small bush, was growing in a soil of decomposed limestone in the midst of a coppice much favoured for nests, which nay lend some support to the theory that this charming bush finds its way from garden to country (where it looks more at home) thanks
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