3 OCTOBER 1952, page 17

Orchard Thieves A Great Deal Of Whispering And Rustling Was

going on behind the hedge, and I stood still, wondering what was happening. Someone tripped over a tin can, a dog barked and all at once there was a great deal more scuffling.......

Snake-bite Egg Remedy Although We May Have A Warm Afternoon

or two to come, 1 think the adder' has already gone to spend the colder months in torpid state. It is therefore a little late to talk of snake-bite again, but a correspon- dent......

The Flavour Of Rabbit I Met Dick Coming, Down From

one of the farms, and he carried a rabbit. It was a very particular kind of rabbit, he told me, for it had been drained of its blood by a stoat. There was nothing new in this......

Country Life

DURING the past month or two I have read a great deal about the step forward that has been taken in official blessing for the Sawyer trap. I believe that it is a real step......

Nieuralising Bulbs

About this time everyone who likes a spring display thinks of putting in bulbs. Massed for naturalising, such things as muscari, scilla, chionodoxa, daffodil, crocus and winter......