DR. JULIAN HUXLEY'S letter 1 describing the late flowering of horse-chestnut in Paris this autumn brought back to me a vivid memory of autumn 1912. I turned up my youthful diary and found this entry: ...

The region’s latest hope for undoing one of the America’s worst near-extinctions is not, it must be admitted, terribly impressive. “It’s not much of a tree to look at: Kind of scraggly, at the most 4 ...

It’s a blessing moving into a home, as I did 13 years ago, where the previous owners had been interested in the plantings. Hence a lovely hawthorn, flowering dogwood, flowering quince and a linden ...