In The Garden An Older And Very Well-conducted Body, Working
under the Ministry of Agriculture, has recently changed its name—for the worse, as it seems to me. Its newer name is the Britis; , Growers Publicity Council, its older Flowers......
One Of The Examples, Of The Most Salient Examples, Of
the ups and downs of bird population finds a casual allusion in the latest issue of the quarterly Bird Notes and News, issued by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.......
A Naturalist's Easter
Since this Easter Sunday fell on April t7th, and the weather has at any rate done nothing to hinder the movement, holiday- makers should have much to record, and perhaps some of......
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Country Fires Visitors to some of our eastern counties have been impressed by the great amount of dead bracken, which looks and is singu- larly inflammable. A good deal of......
* * * * April 17
It has been said—in a book—that the nightingale is usually heard in the Home Counties on April t7th. Such a syn- chronism is doubtless over-precise ; but the punctuality of the......
Country Life
Stock and Birds In Brazil I came across an echo of the theory that foot-and- mouth disease may be carried by birds. Much the most obvious and one of the commonest of all the......
Queer Nests
It is not too early in the year for the discovery of odd nests ; for example, in the garden of a Lincolnshire rectory a wren has built within the ample folds of a cabbage which......
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