Urban Birds It Happened Also At St. Albans. This Antique
and charming city has certain rural attractions that must be peculiar to it. A query reached me the other day about a bird with a long beak seen diving almost to the ground. It......
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A Battle of Birds A very strange story has been reported by journalists in California ; and qveries about its authenticity reach me from a Spectator reader resident there. It is......
Lent Lilies
A botanist, struck by the frequent allusions to the wild daffodil, has made special journeys in search of it in many parts of England, and come to two conclusions. One is that......
Country Life
Planning England Those who are most effectively busy both with the preser- vation of rural England and the ordered development of urban England have made the regional and the......
Garden Strays Some One Should Write A Book About The
doubtful claims of trees and flowers to native birth. It is the fashion to deny that even the elm (of which there are a great number of sorts) is a British tree. The chief......
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Winter Visitors So far the disappearances of birds have been more- in evidence in England than their appearances. A special tour of bird inspection was made the other day in......
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Blackthorn Winter * Sudden winter, still called blackthorn winter in country places, seems to have treated different gardens very differently. According to laments in some of......
A Western Haunt It Is Different In The West. On
the way to the most lonely farmhouse I ever visited—no road even approaches it—I walked through a meadow dotted with Lent lilies that cer- tainly looked as natural as possible.......
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