Country Life
November Blooms A neighbour of mine has Cultivated the habit of making a census of flowers in the first week of November. The list usually contains about fifty names. This......
Decorative Nightshade
The nightjar suggests the nightshade. An account reaches me from a correspondent in Winnipeg, where newspapers comment yearly on the vanloads of the woody nightshade that are......
Waiting For Frost The Wild Flowers Are Like The Tame,
you could pick a barrow, load of bladder campion and white dead nettle.; and in one spot where garden flowers have strayed the bank is bright with evening primrose. I do not......
A Saved Headland
It was cheering to hear this week that the approaches to Morte Point in North Devon have been permanently saved, through local generosity and the National Trust. Some of us have......
The Nesting Nightjar A Discussion Has Been In Progress Over
the nesting habit of that attractive bird, the nightjar (whose song incidentally has been admirably recorded for the gramophone). The bird stays in England a very short time. It......
A Parental Fox An Ex-soldier, With Whom I Was Discussing
the opening of the hunting season and the excessive earliness of the cubbing season, told me a strange and moving tale of a pair of foxes in the Great War. The unhappy . vixen......
A Poetic Month
Under the inspiration of the recent beauty of the weather prizes have been offered for a poetic address to November in eight lines. The sort of response will perhaps be......
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