The Hoopoe

April 21st is marked in my diary as a memorable day, and its approach has made me keep a keen look out this year, for on this date in 1950 I had a visit from A hoopoe. It was my......

Farmers At Work

Farmer friends are already pointing out to me successes with both winter and spring corn that one could hardly have expected under the exceptionally wet conditions. Both October......

Country Life

IN the glory of spring sunshine we shall soon forget the long wet winter with its unenviable records of cloud and precipitation. The other day I saw Bombylius, the bee fly, for......

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If Or Although .

Sia.—Mr. J. A. Nelder, in your issue of March 23rd, quoting from an article in which I had written, The hotels, if simple, are attractive and clean." asked whether it was......

Capital Punishment

SIR.—In his review of Viscount Templewood's book on capital punish- ment, Christopher Hollis quotes: "The experience of thirty-six States shows that abolition of the death......

In The Garden .

There must be ceaseless activity now to make up for lost time. And necessary replanting in herbaceous borders and any pruning of roe trees that still remains to be done must he......

Hebrew Or Aramaic?

the time, of Christ Hebrew occupied the same position as Latin 'in the Middle Ages. In the synagogue the Law was read in Hebrew by the reader, and then paraphrased by the......

An Old Friend's Passing

Sixty yards from my window across the water-meadows the river bounds my little realm. On the opposite side of the stream, and reflected in its waters, grew a splendid willow......

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