Country Life

A GREAT success is being reaped by the Council for the Encouragement of Field Studies. Students of all sorts, and all sorts of ages, delight to attend the four centres that are......

Poplar Relations

A deal of evidence has reached me in answer to a query on the identity of the Lombardy and black poplar. The conclusion seems to be that the two are identical in almost all......

Graduands

Sia,—Janus is right in his correction of P. S. Pavely, who questions the use of the word " graduand." But, in Scotland, the term is used not only of those about to receive......

Blood Donors

Six,—I have just read A. Piney's letter in The Spectator of June 18th and should like to endorse heartily his comments on our blood transfusion service ; they order the matter......

Garden Deserters •

A very local migration has been conspicuous round my house. It is repeated each year. When spring comes the linnets, which have flocked elsewhere, come to the garden in pairs,......

In The Garden

Lately, as often before, accounts have been published of the wholesale destruction of lettuces that had become unsaleable. The consumption of this excellent plant would, I hold,......

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The Bleeding Yew

I saw recently an odd botanical event about which some superstition hangs. On either side of the approach to the old, old church at Nevern in Pembrokeshire are a number of yews......

Music In Wales

SIR, —A thousand apologies if my typewriter and not your linotype machine was responsible for an error in my article, Music in Wales. Whichever the perpetrator, in justice to......

Easter At School

Stu,—I see that Janus says that for the proposal to fix Easter in April there is " everything to be said and nothing to be said against." Yet I doubt if he will find much......