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NATURE NOTES 
FIELD CLUB RAMBLES. 
April i6. — A most successful ramble around Chingford and the outskirts of 
Epping Forest opened the new’ series of Field Club Meetings for this year. Mr. 
Marshman Wattson, the energetic Secretary of the Society, was the leader on this 
occasion. With a lovely afternoon and the country looking its best in the new 
Spring greenery, the party made its way into Bury Wood, where great clumps of 
the wood sorrel (Oxalis Acetosella) with its sensitive pale green leaflets and 
delicate white bells pushed up from the brown mould. The air was soft and 
pleasant and walking was no difficulty. Blackthorn and whitethorn had their 
early leaflets quite unfolded, but ash and oak, pollard beech and hornbeam had 
not responded so freely. From Bury Wood the highest point of the plateau was 
reached, marked by a granite obelisk, the “ referring point for Greenwich 
Observatory due north,” as our guide informed us. Here, indeed, was a fine 
stretch of country around — the Lea Valley, Chingford and its church nestling in 
trees, High Beach, Loughton, Epping, pleasantly mapped out in green with 
houses and farms in warm red, all bounded by the distant hills of Hertfordshire 
and Middlesex. Then through the pleasant forest footpath, the route lay up 
Yardley Hill to Sewardstone. The hedges yielded plenty of the wild garlic 
(Allium ursinuvi), and wood violets, white and blue, showed their blossoms. A 
few' branches of whitethorn in bloom were seen, cowslips and buttercups and 
daisies, but the season was not far enough advanced to yield many botanical 
treasures. The blackbird and the robin cheered the party with their pleasant 
chirrup, and along the green lane from .Sewardstone a sturdy bullfinch piped from 
a tree-top. 
FORTHCOMING FIELD CLUB RAMBLES. 
May 7. — Farthing Down, Olive Lane, Broadmoor Green, Coulsdon Ccmmon. 
Tea at The Fox. Return by Kenley Common and Caterham Valley to Turley. 
Take return tickets to Coulsdon — Cannon Street, 2.16; London Bridge (S.E. R. ), 
2.20; East Croydon, 2.43 ; Victoria (L.B..S.C.R.), 1.33: Stoats Nest, 2.31. Walk 
thence to Coulsdon Station, where meet at 3. Guide, Mr. E. A. Marlin. 
May 14. — Waltham Abbey ; after tea walking to Chingford through Forest. 
Liverpool Street, 2.15 (slip carriage). Return ticket, Waltham Cross, is. yd.; 
single, IS. id. ; single from Chingford, lod. Guide, Mr. H. Plowman, F.S.A. 
May 21. No ramble ; Whit Saturday. 
May 28. — Pinner, Eastcote, Ruislip. Tea at Ruislip ; then Ruislip Lake and 
Common to Northwood. Trains (Met.) Baker Street, 2.10,2.20; Swiss Cottage, 
2.6 ; P'inchley Road, 2.16. Take return tickets to Pinner. Guide, Mr. James E. 
Whiting. 
/t<ne 4. — Woldingham to Chelsham. Tea at The Bull, Chelsham. Take 
cheap return tickets to Woldingham. London Bridge (L.B.S.C.R.), 2.25 : Vic- 
toria (L.B.S.C. R.), 2.30. London Bridge passengers change at East Croydon. 
Guide, Mr. Matthew Hunt. 
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