27 JANUARY 1939, page 18

A Wounded Winterer

From a garden wall, composed of stone and rubble, was heard one morning last week a clear and plaintive cry on the note D (with apologies for the word). It was thought at first......

Two Old Words

In a Hertfordshire parish are two places always referred to by the local population one as the Slade, the other as the Slype. The Slade or Slad is a dip in the field running......

In The Garden What Is There To Interest In The

garden in mid-winter? A few flowering shrubs, such as viburnum fragrans, chimonan- thus and witch hazel; a few humble flowers, such as the lungwort, beloved of , cottage......

An American Example

The plight of farms in the United States has been much worse than in England; but some salient recoveries are recorded, and these may perhaps have sugges- tions for those who......

An Omnivorous Rat Here Is • Another Odd And Unexpected

experience in the winter ways of animals. Several rabbits shot in a small wood were left in a heap while other coverts were drawn. On returning later in the day the keeper found......

Country Life

A Preserved Forest It is good news that Savernake Forest is not to be dragooned or thrust into an alien uniform. It has escaped the fate of part of the New Forest and the......