CONTENTS 



LETTER I 



PAGET 



Blossom of the Fig Letter from E. G. Baker, Esq. Similar- 

 ity of the Dorstenia The Sunflower Fertilisation of the 

 Fig Letter from the Bishop of Reading Anecdote of a 

 Clergyman and Tomtits '.' i 



LETTER II 



Reviews and Notices of Former Letters Black-headed Gulls 

 Error in Description Japanese Gardens Flower Ar- 

 rangement Kindness to Flowers Line Arrangement 

 Suicides and Accidental Drowning 6 



LETTER III 



Death of Author's Donkey Burial Buffon's Description of 

 the Ass Henry Moore, R.A. Anecdote of Tomtits 

 Fighting The Mild Winter 16 



LETTER IV 



Mural Decoration in Old House at Crowmarsh "Ben"- 

 Chasing Larks Number of Larks Migration of Larks 

 A Rookery in a Gale Birds as Weather Cocks 

 Weather Changes 23 



LETTER V 



A Cool Glass-house Sun-heat Stoking Gardeners Ac- 

 cumulation of Sun-heat under Glass Fig-tree Straw- 

 berries Chrysanthemums Natural v. Artificial Bloom- 

 ing Yellow-hammers at Play Gnats .... 32 



