Country Life
The Three Cold Saints I$ there any real justification for the standard weather prophe- cies—the prophecies that attribute particular phenomena to particular dates ? Buchan's......
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In the Garden Each garden has its particular glory. The wide Hampshire garden at present before my eyes excels in trees and shrubs. It is so well sheltered and so well warmed by......
Resistant Flowers The Botanists Have Made Some Attempts,...
without success, to discover why some flowers resist frost successfully and some do not. Kerner, who was very much interested in local opinion on the Drei Eismanner, alleges......
Building Material
One of the common sights in my garden of late has been a hen chaffinch busily picking up the hairs left by a Tan el at a favourite sleeping and rolling place. The bird always......
* * * * A Danish Achievement An Invitation Has
reached me to attend a ceremony that should really help to cure those who favour an urban civilisa- tion. The Danes are to celebrate in Copenhagen, that most beautiful northern......
Decorative Birds Most English Students Of Birds Know...
ingenious frieze of bird portraits that decorate one of the rooms of the house by Hickling Broad, which is the greatest of our bird sanctuaries. Birds lend themselves to this......
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