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NATURE NOTES 
Liverpool Kyrle Society: Flower Branxh. — We wish 
once more to call attention to the useful work done by this 
Association, which requires more active assistants. Boxes of 
wild flowers, or of those from gardens, are sent to the head 
teachers of elementary schools in poor districts of Liverpool, 
to be used either for educational or for decorative purposes, 
either once a fortnight, or occasionally. Country workers are 
specially cautioned not to gather rarities. Those willing to 
assist should communicate with the Honorary Secretary, Miss 
J. L. M. Bird, 4, Riversdale Road, Aigburth, Liverpool. We 
wish our other large cities were provided with a similar 
organisation. 
The National Trust. — We have recently alluded to the 
efforts which are being made to secure Gowbarrow Fell and 
Aira Force and Purley Beeches for the public, to the endeavours 
to protect the beauties of Snowdonia from railway vandalism, 
and to preserve the Whitgift Hospital at Croydon from being 
“improved” off the face of the earth. The chief points of 
interest, besides these, in the recently issued Report of the 
National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural 
Beauty are the successful defence of Headwater Eyot at 
Windsor, of the ancient walls of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and 
of the Palace Gatehouse at Maidstone, the failure to preserve 
the Wordsworth Houses at Penrith from local bumbledom, and 
the proposed acquisition of the old Market House at Winster 
in Derbyshire, and of Barrington Court, near Ilminster, Somer- 
set. The former of these, partly of “ Early English ” date, is 
virtually secured, only £80 being now required for needful 
repairs; whilst the latter, the shell of a very fine Tudor house, 
which has been described as one of the glories of Somerset and 
has been bought for £10,^00, can be acquired by the Trust 
when ^'1,500 has been subscribed, an anonymous donor having 
offered £10,000 towards its purchase and repair. We hope soon 
to hear that the £80 required for the Winster Market House, 
the;^i,500 for Barrington Court, and the balance of/ 4, 700 for 
Gowbarrow have all been received, for in no way can the beauty 
and historic interest of our land be more securely preserved in 
perpetuity than by the operation of the National Trust. 
New Lungs for London. — With the constant and rapid 
growth of the metropolis, it is a subject of congratulation when 
some percentage of its enormous area can be secured as green 
open spaces. After a nine years’ struggle. One Tree Hill, Honor 
()ak, was finally secured at the beginning of last month at an 
expenditure of about £y,ooo. Of this, /"i, 000 was contributed 
anonymously, through the Commons and Footpaths Preservation 
Society, and the remainder has been found by the Ctimberwell 
Borough Council. An oak was planted near the stump which 
marks the position of the original “Oak of Honour” under 
