7 NOVEMBER 1947, page 14

In My Garden Have The Gardens Of The R.h.s. Or,

indeed, any other gardens any finer sight at any season than the winter aspect of the bayberries? If you have the deep purple of Pratii, the bright purple of Thunbergia, the......

Woodpeckers On Telegraph Poles It Seems That Some Species Of

bird have local prejudices and practices. For example: it is chiefly in the neighbourhood of Hertford that wood- peckers have adopted the habit of boring holes in the wood poles......

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A Turnstone Card

The selection of the turnstone for the Christmas card of the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust recalls to me the first time I saw this amusing bird at very close quarters. It was in......

Art

MESSRS. JOHN CitArroN and Lucien Freud are holding their first exhibition for some little time at the London Gallery. Perhaps the only similarity that links their work is an......

Country Life

Two Swedes have given the Research Institute workers at Oxford a comparative account of farming in Sweden which will interest all those who believe in yeoman service, that is in......

Trees Not Of Heaven The Recommendation Of The Tree Of

heaven as an alternative to the London plane has aroused some well-documented criticism. There was a glorious specimen in a private garden in Golders Green which became......