CONTENTS xj 



LETTER XII 



PACK 



Winterbourne " An Escape " Mimulus Lily-of-the-Valley 

 Growing Wikl^ High Clere Beacon Panoramic View 

 Pastoral Scenery Ramsbury Manor House Super- 

 stition as to Bees Bees Stinging The Rev. E. Hawkins 

 and His Bee Carriage Fred. Walker's Bees Bees in a 

 Billiard Room 92 



LETTER XIII 



St. Leonard's Church Snails on Walls Tracks of Snails 

 Distance Travelled by Snails Moorhens Resemblance 

 to Domestic Hens Their Voices Compared St. Swith- 

 in St. Bartholomew Strolling Players Ingenious 

 Advertisement . 



LETTER XIV 



Wagtails Bats Their Flight and Steering Rain on Water 

 Smooth Parts Theory as to the Cause Acanthuses 

 Description of their Bloom " Bear's Breech " Gerard's 

 Account -Kingfisher's Note. . . . . . . 107 



LETTER XV 



Great Hood Records Studio in Danger Flood-Gates and 

 Sewage Works Sufficiency of Thames Water Supply 

 Making a New Lake versus Spoiling an Old One The 

 Flood by Moonlight Effects of Flood Kingfisher 

 Boating in a Flood Curious Effect of Flood, on Daisies 

 Damage done by Flood 115 



LETTER XVI 



Subsidence of River Fine Weather A Boy's Garden House 

 Old Willow Stump Flowers in Late Autumn List of 

 Plants Blooming in December Pansies Self-sown . . 124 



